House passes Bush Homeland Security budget 424-1
That’s about the long and the short of it. All 8 non-voting representatives were Democrats, including 1st District PA Rep. Bob Brady, who has probably taken off for the Jersey Shore already. Brady has already expressed a desire for additional Homeland Security money, and even if you think that’s a good idea this is hardly the way to go about it. Link to vote tally.
The only national security apparatus opponent in the 435 member body is Libertarian-leaning Republican Ron Paul of Texas. Link to some of what he has to say about the DHS. Paul is also one of the only reps who has spoken and voted time after time in favor of the constitutional imperative that Congress alone has the ability to declare and fund war.
How pathetic is the Democratic Party that they won’t muster a single vote in opposition? Not one. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) also let us down on this one.
