The House voted yesterday to significantly decrease aid to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority.
The measure was approved 361-37, and would cut off aid to non-governmental groups in the West Bank and Gaza excepting health programs, and would deny visas to members of the PA. It would also ban contacts with Hamas, due to their classification as a terrorist organization and limit the President's authority to waive the aid bans.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a chief sponsor of the bill, said, "The United States must make it unambiguously clear that we will not support such a terrorist regime, that we will not directly or indirectly allow American taxpayer funds to be used to perpetuate the leadership of an Islamic jihadist group."
Sounds good... It should've been done a while ago, right?
Well, Bush just got another strike with me. He doesn't' like it; the administration believes it goes too far, and is overreaching in its restrictions.
WHAT? I for one, think it's about high time that the government stops giving away our money to our enemies, and now that the House has dared to reflect the public's views in the legislature, the White House is going to get it's nose out of joint over it?
I swear, the Republicans have their heads so far up their posteriors that, as Nanc said, it would take the jaws of life to get it out of there!
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