David Obey: “I find it rather humorous that our good friends on the other side of the aisle would utter not one peep when this…”

“I find it rather humorous that our good friends on the other side of the aisle would utter not one peep when this President decides to spend over $600 billion on a war in Iraq which he misled the country into, which he didn't have a clue of how to get out of, and now he's asking us to make a commitment that will lead over the next 20 years to the expenditure of at least $1 trillion more for that same misguided cause. Not a peep; most of their buttons wired right to the White House, wired right to Karl Rove's desk. And yet, it's the same crowd that will then make a Federal case out of the fact that when we cut the President's budget for foreign aid we didn't cut it quite enough. And so they're making a Federal case out of one-half of 1 percent. My good friend, Archie the Cockroach observed once, 'Remember the importance of proportion. Of what use is it for a queen bee to fall in love with a bull?' Think about it. If you do, you'll realize just how silly and misguided this debate is, because this is a crowd who spent willingly $600 billion on the most damaging war in recent American history, and yet are now objecting to the President's request to fund a bill which is traditionally meant to repair our relationships around the world and to pay a little bit of the cost of citizenship on a planet where many millions of people are a whole lot less fortunate than we are.”