Only 65 Congress People Vote to End the War

Only 65 Congress people voted today to end the war in Afghanistan. But only a handful of reporters covered it. I'm not sure which is worse.
But I am constantly amazed at how uncontroversial our wars and war spending is.
Over 60% of the Federal Budget went to the Pentagon this year, but those measures sailed through Congress and the Senate without any controversy at all. Health Care Reform could be paid for by ending the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but THAT would be too controversial.
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Published on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by The Huffington Post
Patrick Kennedy: Press Corps Is 'Despicable' for Not Covering Afghanistan War Resolution
by Ryan Grim
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) excoriated the national press on Wednesday during a debate over the war in Afghanistan, charging reporters with shirking their duty to cover the issue and instead focusing on the peccadillos of former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.).
"There's one, two press people in this gallery," he thundered. "We're talking about Eric Massa 24/7 on the TV. We're talking about war and peace; $3 billion; 1,000 lives and no press! No press!"(AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)"There's one, two press people in this gallery," he thundered. "We're talking about Eric Massa 24/7 on the TV. We're talking about war and peace; $3 billion; 1,000 lives and no press! No press!"
The House is debating a resolution written by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), which would require the military to withdraw from Afghanistan within 30 days or longer if it couldn't be done safely that quickly.
"You want to know why the American public is fit? They're fit because they're not seeing their Congress do the work that they're sent to do," railed Kennedy, who is retiring at the end of this term. "It's because the press, the press of the United States, is not covering the most significant issue of national importance and that's the laying of lives down in the nation for the service of our country. It's despicable, the national press corps right now."
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