Pork

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided House voted Friday to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year, a victory for Democrats in an epic war-powers struggle and Congress' boldest challenge yet to the administration's policy.

Just over an hour later, an angry Bush accused Democrats of staging nothing more than political theater and said that if the spending bill is not approved and signed into law by April 15, troops and their families "will face significant disruptions."

Ignoring Bush's promised veto, lawmakers voted 218-212, mostly along party lines, for a binding war spending bill requiring that combat operations cease before September 2008, or earlier if the Iraqi government does not meet certain requirements. Democrats said it was time to heed the mandate of their election sweep last November, which gave them control of Congress.

The real problem with the bill is that it's loaded with pork spending. Evidently Pelosi had to make deals for votes that involved pet projects. That's total bullshit and makes Democrats look horrible. Everyone knows that the bill will never become law because of Chimpy's veto, so why make yourself look bad by loading it up with non-military related spending?

All that did was give the Republicans talking points.. and effective ones at that. Lame..