{"id":11736,"date":"2009-06-17T07:16:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T12:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11736"},"modified":"2009-06-17T08:41:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T13:41:26","slug":"on-that-war-funding-bill-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11736","title":{"rendered":"On that war funding bill vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of our commenters, Another Disgrunted IVAW “member” wrote last night<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Looks like 170 Republicans voted against the troops today. Why do they hate us? They send us to war and don\u2019t want us to have the necessary equipment to win the wars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He\/She is talking about this vote yesterday on the war funding bill<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The 226-202 roll call Tuesday by which the House approved a $106 billion bill to ensure financing for war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan over the coming months.<\/p>\n

A “yes” vote is a vote to pass the bill.<\/p>\n

Voting yes were 221 Democrats and 5 Republicans.<\/p>\n

Voting no were 32 Democrats and 170 Republicans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A quick look through the news turned up the reason why so many Republicans voted against the bill like this one from Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives on Tuesday narrowly backed a $106 billion bill to pay for the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and extend billions in new credit to the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n

The legislation also includes extras like vouchers to spur U.S. car sales, and comes after a series of political battles that exposed the sharp fissures between President Barack Obama’s Democrats and the Republican minority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fact, Republicans mostly opposed the $108 billion for the IMF (doesn’t the Left hate the IMF?) which they called an international bailout. Oh, yeah, and the spending bill included lots of little extras that had nothing to do with the war in Afghanistan and Iraq<\/p>\n

The legislation also ballooned after Obama sought billions of dollars to combat the H1N1 flu virus which has now become a pandemic. Lawmakers nearly doubled his request of $4 billion to $7.7 billion, though $5.8 billion is contingent on needs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the Dayton Daily News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“What does a $108 billion global bailout have to do with protecting our troops and giving them the tools they need for victory?” asked House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I find it a little disingenuous of Democrats, and commenters, who didn’t complain about Democrats trying to pull funding out from the troops for the last two years and now suddenly want to denigrate Republicans for opposing Democrat spending sprees with legitimate concerns.<\/p>\n

TSO ADDED:<\/strong> I hope Jonn will forgive me for weighing in on his post, but the majority of Congressmen of both parties voting against this that I talked to also cited the conference taking out the Senate language blocking release of the photos.\u00a0\u00a0 This coupled with the non-military, non-emergency stuff in the supplemental (which is off budget) is what sealed the deal on the no votes.\u00a0 It should be noted that there was still another month before these funds were needed.\u00a0 The promise of Obama to block the release doesn’t ring true with a lot of folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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