This battle over funding started today with the Bush veto of the Education Bill. The Bill was a grand total of $606 Billion for Education but it had millions of dollars of pork put into the bill. Bush has been attempting to recapture the GOP mantle of fiscal discipline.  It has about $10 Billion in pork in it so much for Mr. Obey's promises to cut back pork......... heck in a quote I found on here from another blog it appears that he urged people to vote for the bill to save their pork lol this guy is a laugh.

Okay here is the link to the exact quote: 

Now why does this matter at all? Well the far-left dems that can think of nothing better but to tax and spend are now talking about cutting off funding for the troops. Thats right they are saying that the bill Bush has asked for is to big. Now I will grant that some of that might be true with all the waste that is happening in Iraq. But to say that the Pentagon will need to fund the war out of its own budget?? This hurts the troops. This cuts into other military programs. But I guess the Dems don't care. Anything for a hand out.

Remember this is the party that said they would get us out of Debt okay okay they said allot of things. Like cutting pork spending?? Yea right lol just think if they where really committed to cutting spending how much tax payer money we would save??

So in this fight over spending ask yourself this: is it okay to hold money for the troops hostage if the President does not A) stop vetoing bills that have millions in pork or b) if the President does not set a deadline to end the war and bring the troops home? The answer to both of those questions is No it is not okay and we must support the GOP as they prepare for battle in the coming days.