Best of the Web Today pointed to a New York Post story wherein John F’n Kerry says he’ll support Bush’s proposal for more spending on Iraq:
John Kerry yesterday said he’ll back President Bush’s call for $25 billion in extra funds to support U.S. troops in Iraq, after taking lots of heat for voting against $87 billion for the troops last fall.
“The situation in Iraq has deteriorated far beyond what the [Bush] administration anticipated. This money is urgently needed and it is completely focused on the needs of our troops,” Kerry said in a statement.
Note, however, Kerry has not affirmed that he will bother showing up in the Senate to actually cast a vote on it. Working in the Senate is the job for which American taxpayers employ Kerry at a salary of over $150,000 a year, but for which Senator Kerry has been calling in sick for much of the year.
