Congress is failing us again

Most of congress has now admitted that giving bush too much power was a mistake, or have brought up they were misled by faulty claims from this administration.

So why now is congress handing over any money at all if it is going into Condi Rice's hands and will be exempt from oversight on how this money is going to be spent.

This is an outrage and a terrible failure by our congress. Didn't any of these elected officals hear of 'fool me once...?'

The president and congress is only as good as the people want them to be! And are only tools to operate our society.

We the people by the people for the people.

Case in point: the Clinton impeachment. Congress was well aware that two-thirds of America was opposed, yet it pressed ahead.

Congress has heard that the majority of Americans are opposed to bu$h's $87 billion, yet it pressed ahead.

There seems to be something more attractive to Congress than the will of the people, no?

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as GOp will. Bush controls the cash for his party so they all fall in line for the hand out. Dem see this and know how the game is played. I am watching Snowe. She has not got in step all the way with Bush but she also has to get the votes in Maine, so who will she go to?Now a Kennedy does not care. He will get his votes and can say anything. Hollis has to leave. The state has gone over to the GOP and Bible people in a big way, so he will never get in for another term.He can say anything as he will not be back.

...that the anthrax attacks on Leahy and Daschle were assassination attempts meant to send a message. These people are intimidated big time. It is so much easier to just take the graft and posture about national security issues no matter how slavish and ridiculous it may look. The resistance to dictatorship now is merely tokenism.

Only the fig leaf of constitutional appearances and parliamentary procedure remain.

The Bushies are not going to let anyone run the Iraq problem who isn't one of their insiders. Yet expendable.

As for the $87 billion, well, it's not so bad. The $67 billion in troop and equipment costs and bribes to friendly countries and such are either politically necessary or ending up back home in the form of troop pay and small contractor business. It doesn't exactly matter whether it's all that efficiently spent because it will disperse pretty widely.

The trick is the $20 billion in reconstruction costs. With Bush polling like a dive bomber whose engine has given out, the Bushies are going to try to squeeze as much political effect out of this money as possible. They can't afford to waste the stuff, since it may not be enough anyway.