Snipped from AP.Google.com.

While you are worried about the $700 billion price tag for bailing out our economy, Congress just easily passed $612 billion to be sent to cover defense spending for the FAILED Iraq war (I don’t care that the surged worked, we have still failed the original mission), and the FAILED Afghanistan War (failed because our focus is continually diverted to the Iraq war). So, in reality, we have two bailouts. Our government has to bailout Bush, and his Bushites with their Iraq War débâcle, and our economy because of … um, could it be? Bush, and his Bushites? Ding, ding, ding! Tell them what they have one Johnny. Yes, it is Bush’s fault, maybe not entirely, but he has had a major hand in his deregulation of big business initiative since he took office.

Here is a small portion of the article:

Bowing to President Bush’s demands, the House passed a mammoth package for the Pentagon on Wednesday that contains a pay raise for troops, billions of dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — and some political protection for lawmakers during a tense election season.

The 392-39 vote sent the $612 billion defense authorization bill to the Senate, which was expected to clear it this week.
To earn President Bush’s signature rather than a veto, House and Senate negotiators dropped several provisions he opposed. They include a ban on private interrogators in U.S. military detention facilities and what would have amounted to congressional veto power over a security pact with Iraq.

Not passing it before Congress adjourns this week was not an option six weeks out from an election in which voters will choose a new president, every seat in the House and a third of the Senate. Democrats made clear early on that any Republican efforts to block the bill would be characterized as disrespect for military personnel.

However, negotiators address objections from some Senate Republicans to $5 billion in pet projects not requested by Bush, called earmarks. In the compromise, the earmarks are listed in a table accompanying the legislation.

Um. Maybe we could have used the $612 billion to help save our economy? You know, if we weren’t trying to occupy and falsely prop up a foreign government in a society and culture we know nothing about. But, what do I know?