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Joe Manchin went along for the ride on the defeated amendment. Keeping the government open and following the President on foreign policy was just too much in one vote.
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A spending bill (continuing resolution only) should have been passed 6 months ago. As it is we came within 2 working āin sessionā days of shutting the government yet again. And the Senate and House are behaving as if they have done a grand job. To me, if they worked for me Iād fire the lot of 'em for incompetence. They are an incapable, ultra-partisan, dysfunctional lot that we have elected. We should rightly be ashamed we cannot do better at the ballot booth.
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The Congress has now earmarked something like $250 million dollars for arming the laughably āmoderateā Syrian opposition. In a sane world there would be plenty of money for things like infrastructure repair, funding public education, and science research at major universities. But instead we send money (some $250 million) that some GOP have said is wholly inadequate (they want to send $billions and have US troops on the ground) to fund people Congress calls āmoderateā rebels.
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The best part of this?
Tom āobstructionistā Coburn had his ass handed to him with the loss. He wanted to do ANYTHING to block thisā¦
I sure wish some other countries would look into Americaās situation and agree to arm and finance us to overthrow our government. Sounds cool and exciting, huh?
None of these plans have a chance of working until we get the Muslims leaders and Muslim people over there to get on board. Until then, weāre just wasting lives and money!