9-11 Legacy: Obey Tried to Cut Intelligence Funding

"Three persons who chaired or were ranking Democrats on Armed Services subcommittees for part of the 1993-99 period—Pat Schroeder, D-CO; Neil Abercrombie, D-HI; and Marty Meehan,D-MA—also voted for every fund-cutting amendment that was offered during their tenures. Dave Obey, D-WI, the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee that holds the House’s keys to the federal checkbook, voted seven out of eight times to reduce intelligence funding."

That's a quote from this article in Front Page Magazine.

As we remember 9-11, let's remember that seven of the eight times Obey faced a vote on funding our intelligence operations after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 until 1999, he voted to CUT our ability to monitor potential threats.

If for no other reason this fall, we should toss Obey out on his ear for these seven votes. It's incomprehensible to us that as Osama Bin Laden was declaring war on America, Obey could sleep at night after voting to cut the intelligence funding to try and protect us from attacks.