A Senate Republican is working to persuade his colleagues to vote against President Obama's war supplemental spending bill if it isn't paid for, threatening to rebuild a left-right coalition that nearly took down the last war funding measure Democrats pushed through Congress.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has been meeting with GOP senators to press his case that the war-funding bill must be paid for with cuts in spending.
Republicans are persuaded that, in principle, the war should be paid for. But finding the money to do it is another question, pitting two traditional GOP positions - pro-military spending and anti-tax - against each other.
Interesting that now that the Democrats are in charge, the GOP actually cares about paying for the obscene mess that they created. And they want to pay for it with spending cuts, because they take away your Republican membership card if you ever speak the word 'raise' and 'taxes' in the same sentence together. This should not be surprising coming from the party that singlehandedly destroyed an enormous projected budget surplus and replaced it with an even more enormous deficit by means of unfunded tax cuts and open-ended wars, but that certainly doesn't minimize the insulting nature of such a hypocritical proposal. This is also certainly nothing new; the GOP deficit peacocks have been posturing about the debt and a newly found obsession with paygo for some time now. I just find it especially egregious that they have the audacity to suddenly become very concerned about paying for the bullshit wars that they started and were never concerned about funding in the first place.
The irony here is that I absolutely believe that our continued meanderings in Afghanistan should be paid for, however I find it a little ridiculous that a Republican is the one lecturing Congress about it.
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