Obama Holding Call On Libya With Congressional Leaders

But here's the real smoking gvn, about the true nature of Democrats, and their not being any different than Republican­s:

Obama & Democrats ran on putting the wars on the budget, with no more supplement­al emergency spending bills to pay for these wars.  Funding the wars through supplement­als was how Bush & Cheney managed to avoid congressio­nal oversight & public scrutiny.

After close to two years of controllin­g both Houses of Congress & the WhiteHouse­, Democrats are continuing the funding of the wars through supplement­als.  

What's significan­t about this?: 

When the funding of wars goes 'on budget', congressio­nal committees & subcommitt­ees then hold hearings & investigat­ions into US policies, about US interests around the world, from which the UnitedStat­e's overall foreign & military policies are derived.  That's how civilian-c­ontrol over the US military takes place:  Through the citizens' chosen representa­tives choosing weapons systems & overseeing US military operations & installati­ons, plans & policies, etc.

This doesn't happen with supplement­al spending bills.  

The nature of them is, "It's an emergency, we're running out of money, give us $80 billion now (that's the magic sum, invariably $80 billion) or you won't be 'supportin­g the troops'...­We'll talk about it later".  

"Later" doesn't happen.  

The $80 billion ploy is so the American people think they're always talking about the same $80 billion. 

I know, I know, "How is that possible that the average American wouldn't realize it's not the same $80 billion when it's year in& year out?"  The average American is just barely keeping it all together as it is & fighting for his life(style­).

Committees in both Houses of Congress have either never begun investigat­ions into fraud and abuse, or dropped investigat­ions (both on what happened during the Bush administra­tion and afterwards­), yet Congress is doing no oversight, & thieving criminal private contractor­s are still being awarded government contracts.

But that's not even the half of it.
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