Rocker and activist Bono plays the political game fairly well and stays away from any partisan statements as best as he can. But one could guess he wanted more than a photo op when he met with incoming US House leader Nancy Pelosi and incoming Senate majority leader Harry Reid.
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But it appears that the rock and roll icon got nothing more than that from the liberal Democrats. "I'm alarmed we could not get a commitment from the Democratic leadership to prevent the loss of $1 billion in the continuing resolution," Bono said Thursday in a statement.
"I don't know who to blame. Democrats are blaming Republicans. Republicans are blaming Democrats. But the million people who were expecting (mosquito) bed nets don't know who to blame. They just know that a promise made by the United States to keep their families safe is in danger of being broken next year."
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The Las Vegas Review Journal reports the session this way. Meetings in Washington last Thursday between rock star Bono and Democrats, including Senate leader Harry Reid of Nevada, yielded a nice photo-op but not much else, according to Bono.
Bono, the U2 frontman and anti-poverty activist, was on Capitol Hill to seek assurances that $1 billion in planned U.S. spending to fight AIDS and malaria in Africa would not be lost if Congress freezes agency budgets in the coming year.
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It appears that a Democrat-led DC is not much different than a GOP controlled Washington as far as Bono's cause is concerned.
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