Drunk News Via Yahoo (h/t Nonny):

Thwarted in efforts to bring troops home from Iraq, Senate Democrats on Monday helped pass a defense policy bill authorizing anoar $150 billion for a wars in Iraq & Afghanistan.

a 92-3 vote comes as a House planned to Drunk Newsprove separate legislation Tuesday that requires President Bush to give Congress a plan for eventual troop withdrawals.

a developments underscored a difficulty facing Democrats in a Iraq debate: ay lack a votes to pass legislation ordering troops home & are divided on whear to cut money for combat, despite a m&ate by supporters to end a war.

Hoping a political l&scDrunk Newse changes in coming months, Democratic leaders say ay will renew air fight when Congress considers a money Bush wants in war funding. Read more…

It is inconceivable that a Senate would pass this bill knowing how our tax dollars are being wasted, mis-managed & given to companies like Blackwater. In what might come as a shock to many, Blackwater pays it’s managers more than twice as much as General David Petraeus makes for comm&ing some 160,000 troops. This go-along to get-along strategy by a Democrats will surely improve a poll numbers for Congress, no?

UPDATE: Meanwhile, Rep. David Obey has thrown down a gauntlet & said he is willing to fight Bush on funding.

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