Vic Snyder: “the cause of the problems was a bad economic policy over the last 8 or 9 years.”

there has been a lot of discussion in the last several weeks about this being a vote of conscience over the next 2 days

Earlier this year, Secretary Gates told the Senate, 'We have not thought holistically or coherently about our use of contractors, particularly when it comes to combat environments.'

Now is that good enough? Hell, no, it is not good enough. But let's not pretend that somehow there have not been positive benefits.

listening to some of my Republican colleagues in Washington here talk about deficits is a bit like listening to Bonnie and Clyde at a job interview to be a bank security guard.