How To Save Face When You Fall Flat On Your Keister

The Democratics have another war funding bill in the works and supposedly this one has no time line for surrender. Those letters, phone calls and emails from the Home Front Warriors (normal citizens) must be working. They even are considering dropping some of the pork.

To cover their defeat at the hands of the President and the People, the most radical congress to sit in my lifetime intends to insert more totally unrelated legislation into the package and raise the Minimum Wage by a whopping $2.10 per hour.

By tasering the economy, the Democratics no doubt hope to slow things down in the business sector leading up to the '08 election, at least enough so they can cry "recession" and "depression" in their campaign ads and at the same time boast that they voted to raise the Minimum Wage.

Now that's a sweet deal for the clown posse if you ask me.

Dems set war bill without Iraq timeline
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
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WASHINGTON - In grudging concessions to President Bush, Democrats intend to draft an Iraq war-funding bill without a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and shorn of billions of dollars in spending on domestic programs, officials said Monday.

The legislation would include the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade, a top priority for the Democrats who took control of Congress in January, the officials added.

While details remain subject to change, the measure is designed to close the books by Friday on a bruising veto fight between Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress over the war. It would provide funds for military operations in Iraq through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.