Victory Caucus - The Kung Pao Congress: Senate Style!

The Kung Pao Congress: Senate Style!

Written by N.Z.

Monday, 26 March 2007

Last week, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives narrowly passed their version of the emergency supplemental last week. Their decision to load the bill up with pork including funding for shrimp, spinach, and peanuts led Hugh Hewitt to dub them the 'Kung Pao Congress '

Now, the Senate has received the bill and Senate Democrats are beginning to add their own morsels to the pork buffet. You can check out a browseable, linkable version of the full bill here .

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written by Sean, March 26, 2007

Well, at least they're including a Fortune cookie with the Kung Pao. Becuase all this pork their adding is costing us a fortune...

We need to be taking names
written by Allen S. Thorpe, March 28, 2007

and then giving them all the boot. These two votes are the most contemptible, cowardly and cynical actions since Tammany Hall was in its heyday.

One other thing I wish the right would quit doing is agreeing that "Bush has made mistakes" in running this war. Anybody else in his position would have been advised by the top brass and thus made the same errors. As Rumsfeld said, you go to war with the army you have, and that includes a lot of peacetime generals and admirals who've built their careers on bureaucracy, not fighting.

Those who thought we needed more boots on the ground probably wouldn't have used them the way Petraeus is using them today. And those who complain that Bush didn't call for the kind of sacrifices FDR did forget that FDR went to war during the Depression. He didn't have an economy to keep running. He used the war to get it going again.

If we had started drafting people and sent half a million troops to invade Iraq, who's to say that we wouldn't have had 10 times the casualties and still be bogged down fighting insurgents. We won WWII in 4 to 5 years, but we occupied Germany and Japan a whole lot longer, before they were able to stand on their own. Germany, as I recall, was divided and had to be defended from being engulfed by the Iron Curtain for another 45 years or so.

I wish I had Churchill's command of the language to call down the judgments of history on these puny, athoracic (without chests) Congressmen and Senators who have just voted to break open the treasury like a pinata for their cronies and sell out their country for a mess of pork.

In the matter of taking names
written by edgeofacrimony, March 29, 2007

I agree with the former comment with one modification. As well as dogging these traitorous "public servants" to their graves we need to be identifying the recipients of their favors and shaming them for accepting this blood money. I don't care who they are they need to be exposed as the erstwhile war profiteers they are. I can certainly find another source of peanut butter, or shrimp, or spinach if I know who has been contaminated by this money.

Time for a return of shame and ostracism to the public sphere. And a little stress on the old back pocket wouldn't hurt either.

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