The troops' funding hangs in the balance, as Nancy Pelosi takes a vacation to go shopping, visit terror sponsors, converts to Islam, and watches QVC.... GOP SLAMS PELOSI: GET BACK TO WORK Mon Apr 09 2007 10:28:28 ET Today, GOP Leaders from both chambers urged Speaker Pelosi to call the House back into session immediately to finish its work on the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill for the troops. Speaker Pelosi neglected to appoint House conferees before the two-week break, further delaying negotiations on a final bill. The joint letter to Pelosi is attached. Text follows: Dear Speaker Pelosi: We are writing to urge you to call the House back into session immediately so that Congress can finish its work on the emergency legislation to fund the Global War on Terrorism. This funding request has been pending since February 5, but your leadership team chose to leave town for more than two weeks rather than completing this bill. As a result, our troops have been put at risk. We are especially troubled by the House's failure to appoint conferees. The Senate appointed conferees on March 29, moments after passing its bill, but the House never did so despite passing the bill a week earlier. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Senate that he hoped the House-Senate conference would begin on March 30. That hoped-for progress has been thwarted by your failure to act. It should go without saying that our military leaders are in the best position to know the needs of our troops, and they have left no doubt that this funding is needed urgently. General Peter Schoomaker, United States Army Chief of Staff, has written that, "without approval of the supplemental funds in April, we will be forced to take increasingly draconian measures which will impact Army readiness and impose hardships on our Soldiers and their families." Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has also emphasized the dangers of delay: "This kind of disruption to key programs will have a genuinely adverse effect on the readiness of the Army and the quality of life for soldiers and their families." Our troops need this funding, and they need it soon. The Senate is in session and ready to work. We respectfully request that you cancel the remainder of your break, call the House back into session, appoint conferees promptly, and work in good faith to pass a clean supplemental funding bill that the President can sign as soon as possible. Every day we don't fund our troops is a day their ability to fight this war is weakened. http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm
409 The number of vacation days Jr has taken (and we won't mention the little notice he received in Aug of 01 while on vacation)
Except for the fact that you are counting work days at the Western White House, a site which is equally functional as the White House. I'd rather my leader be making decisions in an area outside of the beltway, where one can think more clearly. Nice try though at a diversion. Too bad it failed.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/03/MNGECNBRPI1.DTL&type=politics As speaker, Pelosi also has direct control over the House's calendar, meaning she can dictate how its 435 members, their families and their staffs lead their lives. Already, she and her top lieutenant, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., have told members they'll be in Washington much more than the "do-nothing'' 109th Republican-led Congress. Hoyer has outlined a calendar of a minimum of 141 days in session, up more than 40 percent from Congress' 2006 schedule. House members have grown accustomed to being in session from Tuesday through Thursday -- but the calendar of the Pelosi-led House includes weeks of Monday through Friday workdays. tj has been PelosiOWNED!
I bet you weren't even trying to be funny, were you? Maybe you should take a vacation form the D&D and go to Crawford as well, maybe, just maybe, that'll help you think more clearly as well. Please !!!!
Apparently, this is shaping up to be yet another empty promise by the Demoncrats. It also shows you that funding the troops and winning the War really isn't a priority of hers -- she'd rather be off jet-setting and shopping.
In light of the fact that she set a schedule which would leave her 40% less time for jet setting and shopping, your reply makes even less sense than usual. You had contrary evidence to your initial point thrown in your face, and you tried to pretend like it didn't happen, and make the same point again. Funny, but hardly a point for your argument in this case.
Are you saying Bush can't function very effectively when in DC? That's a sad statement as to the incompetence of our President.
No, nice try. Btw -- That looks like an RM95 post right there. One line, void of any substance, and flawed logic.
What is sad is it almost seems as if this was done deliberately considering the timing of this...This is no way to "respect" our troops. Something she seemed all too willing to give the enemy...
Yup. The better way to respect the troops is to support a flawed strategy for years that got lots of them killed. Good job, ROXRAN!
So it seems you condone that the ESA bill has been neglected by the Speaker of the House...Not good. Also, last I checked the 2nd part process in the Iraq war was something I criticized...However, we seem to have better tactics and leadership in place...Yet, there are some who won't even give that a chance...shameful.
I don't condone much of what Pelosi does - I can't stand her. There are a lot of valid criticisms of her, but this and whether she wore a scarf or not are two of the dumber ones.
