SURE, IT'S ONLY BEEN 100 DAYS...:

Supplemental Battle Begins (Steven T. Dennis, 5/05/09, Roll Call)

House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) on Monday outlined a $94 billion war spending bill — $9 billion more than President Barack Obama has requested — without a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq or binding restrictions on the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Obey also refused to provide $80 million for closing the detainee facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, saying the plans for doing so are not yet ready. And he did not give Obama the authority to invest $100 billion in the International Monetary Fund.

The supplemental blueprint, which was endorsed Monday afternoon by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) through a spokesman, could present Democratic liberals with a quandary.

Many left-leaning Members had signed letters in previous years refusing to support any more funding for Iraq unless a timeline for withdrawal was included, and many have expressed concern both at the lack of binding benchmarks for Afghanistan and Pakistan and the emphasis on military spending over economic and humanitarian aid.

...but the UR is well on his way to being the most trivial president in quite some time. All he really wanted was to have his name at the top of the organizational chart and everyone seems happy enough to oblige as long as he stays out of the way.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 5, 2009 12:00 PM