“There’s a D-Day coming in here, and it’s going to start with the supplemental and finish with the ‘08 [defense] budget,” said Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, who chairs the Air and Land Forces subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee.Pelosi and other top Democrats are not yet prepared for an open battle with the White House over ending funding for the war, and they are wary of Republican claims that Democratic leaders would endanger the welfare of U.S. troops. The new approach of first reducing the number of troops available for the conflict, while maintaining funding levels for units already in the field, gives political cover to conservative House Democrats who are nervous about appearing “anti-military” while also mollifying the anti-war left, which has long been agitating for Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to be more aggressive. “What we have staked out is a campaign to stop the field, gives political cover to conservative House Democrats who are nervous about appearing “anti-military” while also mollifying the anti-war left, which has long been agitating for the war without cutting off funding” for the troops, said Tom Mazzie of Americans Against Escalation of the War in Iraq. “We call it the ‘readiness strategy.’”Murtha’s proposal, which has been kept under tight wraps, is likely to pass the House next month or in early April as part of the supplemental spending bill, Democratic insiders said, if the language remains tightly focused and does not threaten funding levels for combat forces already in the field. The battle will then shift to the Senate. Anti-war groups like Mazzie’s are prepared to spend at least $6.5 million on a TV ad campaign and at least $2 million more on a grass-roots lobbying effort. Vulnerable GOP incumbents like Sens. Norm Coleman of Minnestoa, Susan Collins of Maine, Gordon Smith of Oregon and John Sununu of New Hampshire will be targeted by the anti-war organizations, according to Mazzie and former Rep. Tom Andrews, D-Maine, head of the Win Without War Coalition.
Point V Point…
The military needs to concentrate any lay-offs and any cutting back or closing of military installations or *redeployment* of personnel on Harry Reid. Start with Harry Reid’s and Nancy Pelosi’s districts and then work their way down the Democrats list of districts. The Democrats wanted a redeployment, so give it to them.
Let the Democrats feel the pain first and our troops over seas last. *Slow bleed* Harry Reid’s district…. You know he has been piling up the pork in his district and I bet some of it is military. The President can move troops around in war time, put those bases in sleep mode until Harry Reid is out of Congress.
You think Harry Reid will whine like a little girl?
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The military needs to concentrate any lay-offs and any cutting back or closing of military installations or *redeployment* of personnel on Harry Reid. Start with Harry Reid’s and Nancy Pelosi’s districts and then work their way down the Democrats list of districts. The Democrats wanted a redeployment, so give it to them.
Let the Democrats feel the pain first and our troops over seas last. *Slow bleed* Harry Reid’s district…. You know he has been piling up the pork in his district and I bet some of it is military. The President can move troops around in war time, put those bases in sleep mode until Harry Reid is out of Congress.
You think Harry Reid will whine like a little girl?