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POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: SPRING BREAK. Now that it Democrats have secured victory in including a withdrawal date in the Iraq funding supplemental, Terence Samuel notes that the coming congressional recess is going to be a battle of the talking points.
So Washington is once again primed for a showdown. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says that on April 15, if the money approved in the supplemental funding bill is not available, the troops will begin seeing effects. Democrats don't believe him, and they plan to spend a lot of time during the recess discussing how our troops are well-cared for. They'll point out, it is Republicans standing in the way of support for the troops: Some Democrats are willing to force the confrontation by slow-walking revisions of the bill after the veto.Read the whole thing here.--The Editors
