Wow! Instalaunch! Cool…Please have a look around.
Now this is interesting…Both of these items are from the same AP Article posted on two different sites. Both articles are titled:
Senate loads war funding bill with domestic programs
See if you can spot which article has not been altered…
Is this common practice? Boy this sure seems dishonest….notice all the information missing? Fox News was not the only one that saw fit to exclude the information. WSJ and others had no problem omitting the death of the latest attempt by the Senate to end run around their voters clear wish to stop illegal immigration.
I guess I won’t suppose that Fox News, WSJ and others omitted this news because they are pro-illegal immigration. Or should I?
Anyways I came upon this after clicking a line at Michelle’s site and noticing that her snippet did not match the snippet posted on the International Herald Tribune’s site. Cannot imagine that the snippet from the IHT site posted on Michelle’s site sprung from her imagination so they must have changed the article after she posted.
Great! News that is now you see it now you don’t!
| Breitbart Article Exhibit A | Fox News Article Exhibit B | |
| Now that it’s clear that Democrats won’t insist on a troop withdrawal timeline, the White House is focusing on making sure the measure doesn’t exceed his request.
The Senate war funding bill combines $194.1 billion in spending over for war funding, foreign aid, military base construction, heating subsidies and a variety of smaller items. Then there’s $14.5 billion to give 13 weeks of unemployment checks to people whose benefits have run out and $51.6 billion over 10 years to improve GI Bill benefits. There’s $108 billion remaining from Bush’s war funding request for the 2008 budget year ending Sept. 30. But the White House appears willing to lump that request together with $70 billion to carry the war into next spring, as well as Bush’s $5.8 billion request to construct levees in Louisiana. That puts Bush’s request at $183.8 billion—more than $10 billion below the Senate measure. The immigrant farm labor provision added to the measure at a hearing last week by Sens Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Larry Craig, R- Idaho, would allow almost 1.4 million immigrant farm workers to stay in the United States for up to five years to ease a shortage of farm workers that has left some crops rotting in the fields. Sens. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Judd Gregg, R-N.H., followed that up with a provision to extend an expired program to allow seasonal workers to return to the country using H-2B visas. Gregg, typically a fiscal conservative, voted with Democrats at last week’s hearing to adopt $1 billion worth of additional energy subsidies for the poor. That provision led top Appropriations panel Republican Thad Cochran of Mississippi—himself the driving force behind $1 billion for coastal restoration in Mississippi—to warn his colleagues that they were simply guaranteeing a Bush veto. Still, Republicans such as Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas—a member of the Senate GOP leadership team—pressed ahead with add-ons of their own. Hutchison won approval of $100 million in grants to local law enforcement to fight drug trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. It’s the type of situation White House budget director Jim Nussle had in mind last month when he chided senators for a “sky-is-the-limit mind-set” regarding “the desire of some in Congress to load up this troop funding bill with tens of billions in additional spending.” Republican Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri moved to keep open three “veterans business resource centers” with $600,000 in taxpayer funds. One of the centers, naturally, is in St. Louis; the others were in Flint, Mich., and Boston. |
Now that it’s clear that Democrats won’t insist on a troop withdrawal timeline, they’re including add-ons of their own. Hutchison won approval of $100 million in grants to local law enforcement to fight drug trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border.
It’s the type of situation White House budget director Jim Nussle had in mind last month when he chided senators for a “sky-is-the-limit mind-set” regarding “the desire of some in Congress to load up this troop funding bill with tens of billions in additional spending.” Republican Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri moved to keep open three “veterans business resource centers” with $600,000 in taxpayer funds. One of the centers, naturally, is in St. Louis; the others were in Flint, Mich., and Boston. |
Senate loads war funding bill with domestic programs
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