The Argus Leader reports, without challenge, propaganda from Rep. Stephanie Herseth regarding her anti-American vote:
Democrats on Friday successfully pushed through the U.S. House a hard-line spending bill that would pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but require combat troops to leave war-torn Iraq by August 2008, if not sooner, a direct challenge to President Bush's Middle East policy.
On a mostly party-line 218-212 vote, Rep. Stephanie Herseth, D-S.D., and just enough of her House colleagues passed a $124 billion spending bill that carries a list of benchmarks that Iraqis would have to meet, including bolstering their own security forces.
If unmet, the bill would require U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by December 2007. If the Iraqi government is able to step up and take more control of its country, the bill would require forces to begin withdrawing from Iraq by March 1, 2008, finishing by the end of August 2008.Herseth called it "funding with accountability."
"My constituents consistently tell me they want accountability," Herseth, before casting her vote, said of both the White House and the Iraqi government. "It serves America's interests and our troops' interests."
That is not accountability. If we are not successful in meeting benchmarks that the Democrats deem to be success, we surrender in defeat in December 2007. This is giving victory to the Jihadists. And the Jihadists will deem any Iraqis that supported a democratic Iraq to be traitors and there will be heads dropped. This is no way to encourage Iraqi efforts to be self-sufficient. The accountability argument is pure BS.
And the Argus Leader report ends with another piece of Herseth propaganda:
"I've been disappointed with both the far left and the far right," Herseth said this week. She called her vote "a centrist approach to the challenges we face abroad."
Not so, it was conservative Democrats who voted with the Republicans:
In the end, 14 Democrats voted against its passage, including several conservative Democrats who worried that the bill went too far.
Here is how the Democrat’s got the centrists to vote the far-left anti-American line:
Bush asked Congress for $100 billion to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan plus $3 billion in standby disaster relief. The House bill proposes to give him $126.4 billion.
And the extra money? Much of it is pork to buy support for the bill from reluctant lawmakers. There is money for Gulf Coast cleanup and levee repair, for spinach growers, for restoring freezedamaged farmland, for peanut storage, for rice farmers, for wildfire suppression, for shrimp and menhaden fishermen.
This is hardly the frugal fiscal stewardship the Democrats promised us. Indeed, it smacks of the wheeling and dealing that got the Republicans in so much trouble.
In deed. Herseth said one thing during her re-election campaign, but is doing the opposite in DC. And the Argus Leader is spewing her propaganda so that the good people of South Dakota will not get the truth…that Herseth will buy her votes with taxpayer’s money gotten in return for supporting those who want America to lose in Iraq. All designed by the Democrats to steal the White House in 2008. When Chad Schuldt screams "corrupt lying liars", he needs to get a mirror and learn something about himself and his ilk.
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