Saturday, Chuck Raasch, a syndicated conservative, wrote an idiotic op-ed that managed to tie the gate crashers and their mentality to Obama's troop increase putting our kids into debt. It has annoyed me that suddenly the Republicans think it is a good thing to pay for wars and a bad thing to add them to the debt.
Here is my letter:
Chuck Raasch in his op-ed, "Gate-crashers a worthy symbol," ends by speaking of President Obama increasing the debt by sending more troops to Afghanistan. This new found fiscal concern should have been there in 2003.
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In 2003, when President Bush asked Congress for a supplemental $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan, two senators wrote an alternative bill that would have paid for that $87 billion by a rolling back part of the tax cuts on the wealthiest 1 percent of the country — John Kerry and Joseph Biden.
President George W. Bush indicated he would veto it. Republicans should recall — as they still reference it often, Senator Kerry voted for the $87 billion in the version where it was paid for, then cast a protest vote against the bill that added it to the debt that our grandchildren will pay. He spoke on the Senate floor explaining each vote. This actually was a very consistent stand for Kerry who had crossed the aisle to vote for the budget-controlling Gramm/Rudman bill.
Should I assume they now realize that Kerry was right on both votes?
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20091209/OPINION02/91207089/1095/OPINION/Sen.+John+Kerry+had+it+right+(Funny that I found they printed it because it came up on google for Kerry)
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