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Instructions on How to Surrender
Washington, DC | A "Safe Conduct" leaflet, distributed deep inside opposition territory, describes two choices in no uncertain terms: Fight and die, or surrender and live.
Delivered by top Bush administration officials to Democrats and moderate Republicans in the House of Representatives, it is credited with coercing the approval of a $2.2 trillion budget expected to set record deficits exceeding $300 billion.
The leaflet is quite specific in its instruction:
Safe Conduct
Your career in politics does not have to end. You will be safe if you cease resistance. You must follow these steps strictly:
1. Remove all thought of debate from your mind
2. When called upon to vote, say "Aye"
3. Put your hands in your pockets, lower your head and sit quietly
4. Keep these instructions on your person at all times, for future reference
If you do this you will survive. You will be treated well and return someday to face your constituency.
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The move came after a closed-door meeting during which House Speaker Dennis Hastert [R-Ill.] and others argued that the outbreak of war was not the time to hand the President an embarrassing budget defeat.
To fund a $90,000 tax cut per millionaire, the budget slashes veterans' benefits after U.S. combat troops return home from Iraq.
Hastert said, "We don't like the term 'Patriotic Intimidation'. We prefer to call it 'Shock and Awe'."
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