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Soldiers for Peanuts
This week, the House, led by Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), voted to provide $124 billion in emergency spending for the war in Iraq, while requiring that all American forces be removed by 2008. The bill passed by a slim majority- 218 to 212. Unfortunately, many of those votes were bought by the Democrats in the form of pork barrel projects, ballooning the cost to $19 billion more than the President requested to continue operations. Somehow, pet projects, such as providing $74 million for peanut storage in Georgia and $25 million for spinach growers in California ended up on the bill. This is interesting, considering that the Democrats have made it clear that a firm timetable is the best solution. If this is the kind of “ethics reform” that the Democrats promised America during the November elections, America is in big trouble!