I wish they would be as concerned about our soldiers as they are about guacamole.
President George W. Bush’s first spending fight with the Democratic-controlled Congress may come over the Iraq war — and avocados and cattle and flood protection.
Lawmakers are pushing to add billions of dollars to the administration’s war-funding request to meet a host of unrelated demands, including those from California fruit farmers hit by freezing temperatures, ranchers whose livestock were killed in Colorado blizzards and children poised to lose their health insurance.
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California [Democrat Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer], meanwhile, have requested $1.2 billion for avocado, mango, orange and grapefruit growers whose crops were destroyed by a January freeze.
Allahu snackbar!
