From the Hill:
"No American troop will go without … just so the most liberal activists in the country can be quieted," said a senior House Democratic aide. "If it means Democrats in Congress get tea bags and hate mail, so be it — we will not be irresponsible with the lives of our troops."
I have to call a spade a spade here- that reasoning is a total cop-out and disingenous. This CRS report- distributed to every single congressional office, and presumably read by the ever-so-responsible aide who's quoted here, shows that further delays would not have put soldiers in danger. CRS found that the Army had many options to stretch their funding well into the summer, including invoking the Feed and Forage act, which has been used in the past to finance operations while Congress worked on supplemental appropriations bills.
I've pasted below the fold the section of the report that's most important, and added some bolding.
