Editorial: Here's to you, Mr. Boehner

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) is warning Democrats that he will instruct his fellow Republicans to vote against the newly proposed Iraq war spending bill that includes benchmarks for the Iraqi government to meet.  Boehner's main problem with the bill is that Bush would have to come back every two months and ask the Congress for more funding:

"Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid should not treat our men and women inuniform like they are children who are getting a monthly allowance,"House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a statementTuesday. "Republicans will not support rationing funds for our troopsin harm's way and neither will the American people."

Mr. House Minority Leader, George W. Bush is not a soldier, never was one and will never have to worry about being in that position.  So stop equating efforts to change the President's war policy with tying the hands of our men and women in uniform.  Bush and our troops are not the same entity.  And believe me, our troops' hands were tied as soon as the Administration became politically path-dependent on war.

You -- the party of stop-loss, Walter Reed and VA cuts -- accuse Democrats of treating our soldiers like children?  Just to think, back in 2001 I was just a few days away from changing my party affiliation to Republican.  Thanks for assuring that I will never even consider going off the deep end anytime soon.

Comments

[Tony]

-"Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid should not treat our men and women in uniform like they are children who are getting a monthly allowance,"

Listen here Johnny Come Lately, don't try and spin this on to the soldiers ... look at congress like the trustees of the trust funds for the "children", they will make sure that their "parents" (Bush admin) don't mishandle their "allowance" (you jackass)

[George]

How anyone could think that George Bush should not have to be regularly accountable for the money he spends in Iraq after the past 5 years? They are simply either stupid or in Bush's back pocket. If the precious troops dont get funded any time soon, then they can thank Bush and no one else.

And to people who claim that Congress should not make decisions on this war, they are just wrong. That's just not how it works. That's why Congress is elected - so the people have a voice. To say that Congress should not have influence is to say that we shouldn't have influence. And we should have influence because it's our money, our soldiers, our country. Not theirs.

Boehner is a hard core neo-con. Dont ever believe his September deadline rhetoric. He's as tied to Bush as anyone in the world.