Wolfowitz: funding military = patriotic ... D.C. repubs divide.

[mb7588a]

Anyone else sick of this garbage? Is it November yet? Err.. better yet.. is it January yet? :D It's a good article to read, to get the feeling of the Hill aides through their hearsay etc.


http://www.thehill.com/news/030904/bush.aspx

Bush, House GOP at odds
Fissure revealed as tempers flare over Wolfowitz briefing
By Jonathan E. Kaplan

Tensions between the Bush administration and House Republican leaders flared last week when Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz angered them by arguing that reducing President Bush’s proposed defense spending would be an unpatriotic slap at the military.

Wolfowitz’s forceful presentation was yet another symptom of an increasingly strained relationship between the Bush administration and GOP Congress.

snippy

At the Wednesday meeting, Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle (R-Iowa) and Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) voiced their displeasure with the tone of Wolfowitz’s corporate-like slide-show presentation.

A Pentagon adviser familiar with the meeting said that Wolfowitz was only guilty of attempting to make an aggressive push for Bush’s defense spending priorities. His presentation, some of his GOP listeners felt, would have been better directed toward Democratic ears. He stressed that there would be real costs to national security if large parts of the Bush blueprint were to be cast aside.

[seabeyond]

1. bah ha ha haha this is the greatest

i just love this. first they call everyone not voting for them unpatriot, nonchristian adn terrorists, now they are going after each other with it. this is exactly how this sickness works. oh this is the funniest and the coolest

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Tee hee. It's the Repukes' turn to form a circular firing squad !!

What goes around comes around.

:evilgrin:

[damnraddem]

3. What's unpatriotic is:

supporting Dubya.

[bluestateguy]

4. "There must be no criticism of the president"

And I will be sure to remind conservatives of this when John Kerry is in the White House.