Rummymail


"Fork it over...or G.I. Joe won't get paid."

Defense Tech reports on a delightful little scheme Rummy decided upon--he uses the day-to-day military budget, which is where the paychecks for military personnel are drawn from, for his splendid little war--then challenges Congress to deny him supplemental appropriations:

Since the fall, Rumsfeld & Co. have been dipping into the Army's day-to-day funds -- like money for soldiers' paychecks -- and then daring Congress not to make up the difference with a second, "supplemental" pile of cash...

But key members of Congress, like Sen. John McCain, are getting increasingly fed up with this backdoor effort to add tens of billions to the defense budget by essentially holding G.I.'s livelihood hostage. Sooner or later, things are going to come to a head.