Political Quotes

“some refer to this as a bridge fund connecting monies from one year to the next to finance this Iraq war. A bridge is built to overcome an obstacle, and the obstacle here is George Bush. Granting this President 50 billion more dollars without reasonable restrictions to end this war is just building another bridge to nowhere. Today, instead, we use this funding to build a bridge that brings our troops home by beginning a safe, orderly, phased redeployment from Iraq. The President can no longer defy our Constitution as the sole ``decider.'' America has decided that he's wrong, dead wrong, too many deaths wrong, and it's elected representatives in this Congress are now declaring ``no more blank checks.'' Despite the sacrifices of our troops in this deadliest year of the war, this surge has failed completely to achieve its purpose of political progress. ``Retreat,'' you say; you've had a 5-year retreat from political reality. Progress, you say; not in Iraq, not in political reconciliation; progress, perhaps only in your self-defeating propaganda as you repeatedly waved your ``mission accomplished'' banner. The continued cost of this war in hemorrhaged blood and $3 billion of taxpayer money every week is not acceptable or sustainable. Mr. President, no more ``cut-and-run''. We will not cut these reasonable restrictions from this legislation, and we will not run from your veto threat.”