by John Nichols
via: Truthout.org
The Senate agreed on Thursday to increase the federal debt limit by $850 billion – from $8.965 trillion to $9.815 trillion – and then proceeded to approve a stop-gap spending bill that gives the Bush White House at least $9 billion in new funding for its war in Iraq.
Additionally, the administration has been given emergency authority to tap further into a $70 billion “bridge fund” to provide new infusions of money for the occupation while the Congress works on appropriations bills for the Department of Defense and other agencies.
Translation: Under the guise of a stop-gap spending bill that is simply supposed to keep the government running until a long-delayed appropriations process is completed – probably in November – the Congress has just approved a massive increase in war funding.
The move was backed by every senator who cast a vote, save one.
Read the rest of the article here.
Soon our money will be utterly useless
Soon our democracy will be utterly useless.
I wonder why T.P. hasn,t commented on this?
or,er,Did They?
RU:
That plateau has been reached already I am afraid
Senator Russ Feingold… the only sane voice in the Senate. We need more like him, at least 59 more like him. Or is it too late for us?