{"id":19622,"date":"2010-07-02T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T10:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19622"},"modified":"2010-07-02T06:55:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T10:55:08","slug":"defense-funding-loaded-with-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19622","title":{"rendered":"Defense funding loaded with pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats are loading up the defense spending bill with pork &#8211; so much pork that it it looks like it&#8217;ll be the whole budget for government. Stuart Varney puts Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff on the spot making him explain how he can vote for the thing. Of course, Schiff uses the &#8220;everyone does it&#8221; excuse. <\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=4267357&#038;w=400&#038;h=249\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest news video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/07\/01\/house-approves-afghanistan-war-loaded-extras\/\">Fox article<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The House of Representatives OK&#8217;d a $60B bill Thursday to pay for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and fund a variety of other programs like education, Pell Grants, natural disaster relief and relief efforts following the earthquake in Haiti.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the Democrats are are playong games with the idea of ending the war in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The House voted down a proposal to strike all funding for the war, 376-26. Twenty-two lawmakers voted &#8220;present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the House also voted against a plan authored by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) to order a withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. That idea failed 321-100.<\/p>\n<p>The House also defeated an amendment to require the president to present a withdrawal strategy to Congress next year.<\/p>\n<p>The tally there was 260 nays to 162.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the little children in Congress have completely turned the budget process into a political football. They didn&#8217;t pass a budget in 2008 and it looks like they won&#8217;t get one done this year. Is anyone in charge of government anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats are loading up the defense spending bill with pork &#8211; so much pork that &hellip; <a title=\"Defense funding loaded with pork\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19622\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defense funding loaded with pork<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}