Rep. Cantor: Do As I Say, Not As I Do

Sound familiar?  It should.  As Media Matters Action Network has noted, Reps. Bachmann, Boehner, Pence and Jerry Lewis have similarly short memories.

Rep. Cantor Criticized Democrats For Including Non-Troop Items In $100 Billion War Funding Bill

Rep. Cantor Criticized Democrats For Including Non-Troop Items In War Funding Bill.  While speaking with reporters after a meeting of the House Republican Conference, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor said:

We will be very much in opposition to this bill if the Majority inserts the $108 billion request for funding on top and on the backs of our troops... We will take a very hard stance on that and insist that we pass a clean funding bill in support of our troops. [Cantor Remarks, 6/3/09]

Yet He Voted For A $100 Billion Bush War Funding Bill Loaded Down With Non-Troop Items

In 2007, Cantor Voted H.R. 2206, Appropriating $100 Billion For The War In Iraq.  In 2007, Rep. Eric Cantor voted for H.R. 2206, a bill providing $100 billion in funding for ongoing military operations in Iraq.  [H.R. 2206, Vote #181, 5/24/07; Washington Post Votes Database Project, accessed 6/3/09]

The War Funding Bill Included $17 Billion In Domestic Spending.  According to the Washington Post votes database project, the bill also included:

Seventeen billion dollars in the package is for domestic spending. Out of this funding, $6.4 billion is for Gulf Coast hurricane relief efforts, $3 billion in emergency aid for farmers, $1 billion to upgrade port and mass transit security, $3 billion towards converting closing U.S. military bases to other uses, and $650 million to increase funding for children's health care. A Congressional Research Service summary states that the "other domestic beneficiaries include state HIV grant programs, mine safety research, youth violence prevention activities, and pandemic flu protection." [Washington Post Votes Database Project, accessed 6/3/09]