The Democrats big lie about troop funding

Washington Times Editorial:

After the midterm elections, the Democratic congressional leadership promised not to cut funding for the war. "We're not going to do anything to limit funding or cut off funds," said Harry Reid on Nov. 30. "For the troops" was the Democratic mantra then. This week, fingers ever in the wind, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blew the doors off that post-election promise, saying that President Bush's refusal to accept a timeline for withdrawal requires that they threaten a cutoff.
The legislation Democrats plan to push when the Senate returns to work next week reads: "Prohibition on Use of Funds -- No funds appropriated or otherwise made available under any provision of law may be obligated or expended to continue the deployment in Iraq of members of the United States Armed Forces after March 31, 2008."
"I am delighted to be working with the majority leader to bring our involvement in the Iraq war to an end," Sen. Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat, said this week. The bill "end funding for the president's failed Iraq policy." There is no confusion on what this bill intends.
Words have no meaning if this can be reconciled with directly antithetical promises made only a few months ago. Mr. Reid made his "not going to do anything" statement three weeks after the elections. This wasn't some phony campaign promise. It was a phony Washington promise. All indications are that this statement was intended to be taken seriously as an indication of how Democrats would proceed in the 110th Congress. Naturally, it is proven this week to be utterly mendacious.
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The latest Democrat theme is that they are only doing what the people elected them to do, but you would think that there statements immediately after the election would be closer to what they were elected to do. There latest theme is just another big lie that they think they can get away with.