Steny Hoyer observed that:
“Today, the President made his priorities clear by requesting almost $200 billion more to continue his stay-the-course strategy in Iraq. "
No shit. And this is news how?
The Majority Leader also says that the blank check for Big Government Wars is over:
“While we all agree that our troops in the field must be given the resources they need, the American people clearly believe that the President’s Iraq policy is failing. Congress has a duty to review the President’s request carefully, and we stand by our pledge that there will be no more blank checks for his misguided policy in Iraq.”
I'll believe it when I see it. The new Congress has already failed to step up on domestic surveillance – big time. I don't hold out much hope that they will show some spine on this front either.
As much as I don’t want to believe it, I’m afraid that if Bush demands a war on Iran, this weak-kneed, chickenshit Congress – who actually has the support of the American people to stop waging Big Government Wars – will simply roll over and play dead. Meanwhile more Americans will continue to come home in the body bags that blood-thirsty "Christian" conservatives find so easy to ignore.