Politicing war AND Immigration

This is too new for detailed research, but Drudge is screaming that the Senate has moved to cut 1.3 billion off the War and Hurricane Relief appropriation and divert it to the Border.  This is apparently from Judd Gregg, who moved for this amendment to the Emergency Appropriations bill runninig through Congress right now.

 Hillary's claim:

"...Gregg's cuts would "take money from troop pay, body armor and even joint improvised explosive device defeat fund. Now that is a false choice and it is a wrong choice."

will certainly help her claims of supporting the troops in the eyes of the middle of her party.

Judd Gregg from NH (a man I once voted for when I lived there) defended himself against this saying

To come down here and allege that these funds are going to come out of the needs of the people on the front lines in Iraq or Afghanistan is pure poppycock."

Bush has threatened a veto; not based on the diversion of funds to the border but instead for Congress failing to keep the amount at 95 billion instead of the 106 billion it appears headed for.  If ever there was a veto I would enjoy (and there WOULD have been many) this one is it.

And not because I have a problem with giving the border badly needed cash.  My problem with this whole boondoggle is that our political heroes will be able to SAY they are trying to address issues at the border and with the larger problem of immigration, while in actuality they will have accomplished nothing more than throwing money at a problem (and an insufficient amount at that, IMHO) and avoided once again their CIVIC duty to address these problems through legislation to fix the problem once and for all.

I want to know what others think.  I personally think this is playing chess with soldiers and immigrants alike, while only further showing their political survival is their primary motivation, and that they really could care less about Hurricane victims, Soldiers, State and National Sovereignty and Security and even fundamental Fiscal Responsibility...and they all are due a fair amount of shame.