Which Government Displays More Failure?
by Big Dog on Sep 10, 2007 at 12:22 Uncategorized
This item comes from the Federalist Patriot:
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said that expecting Congress to pass 12 appropriations bills by the deadline at the end of September would be “unrealistic.†He blamed the Senate, which still must pass 11 of the 12. House Minority Leader John Boehner, however, blamed Democrats’ preoccupation with losing the Iraq war. “Had… Democratic leaders not devoted six months of the taxpayers’ time and money to forcing a U.S. retreat from the war against al-Qa’ida in Iraq at the expense of pressing national priorities, the Congress could have completed more of the work the American people sent us here to do.â€
It is amazing that Hoyer said that expecting Congress to pass 12 bills by the end of September is unrealistic while his very own party within that Congress expects Iraq to have met all 18 milestones by the time General Petraeus reports on the surge and the overall effort in that war torn country. Iraq has accomplished 7 or 8 of the items (depending upon who is reporting) and has reached a partially met on others. The completed stands around 45% (if the upper number is taken). That is certainly a failing grade in most books (except the public schools where it would hurt self esteem to grade a kid) but it shows progress in a difficult situation.
Iraq has met some of the goals so it is working to achieve them. They are just not able to complete them as early as our Congress wants them to. It is, as Hoyer would say, unrealistic to expect full compliance. Pulling out our troops and dropping support now would not, as some on the left claim, show the Iraqis that this is not an open ended commitment, it would actually show them that a Congressional body that is unable to meet its own expectations is being, dare I say it, unrealistic.
After all, there are problems. Hoyer complains that the Senate is slow and it is time consuming with all that goes on. Geez, you would think they are trying to run our government in the middle of a war zone or something
If they were, perhaps they would have a higher rate of success. Maybe Hoyer should ask the Iraqis how to get things done…
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