Democrats are tying $5 billion of IMF funding to the Iraq/Afghanistan war funding bill causing Republicans to vote against the bill. It would have been un-American during the Bush administration for a member of Congress to vote against funding the troops. Today it's patriotic to oppose them.
In all honesty, this is the sort of stuff that is never going to change in Washington. It's called politics. Measures get tied to bills all the time. I'm not against tying an IMF funding measure to a bill, I'm against continuing the war in Iraq.
