Incredible Hypocrisy: Bond And Senate Republicans Filibuster War Spending Bill

I'm struggling to wrap my head around the hypocrisy exhibited in this gambit by Kit Bond and his GOP colleagues:

Senate Republicans said Thursday that they would try to filibuster a massive Pentagon bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unusual move that several acknowledged was an effort to delay President Obama's health-care legislation....

Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Richard C. Shelby (Ala.) and Christopher "Kit" Bond (Mo.) admitted they support the spending bill but acknowledged they were considering opposing it because of the health-care debate...

Bond was one of four Republicans to skip the cloture vote on the bill very early this morning.  Sen. McCaskill voted to stop the GOP filibuster, which was ended with a 63-33 vote at 1:01 a.m.

When Republicans weren't trying to obstruct health care reform, this is what we heard from Republicans like Bond.  From a June story in the Politico:

GOP does about-face on troop talk

To hold up a war-funding bill would be “the equivalent of waving a white flag to al Qaeda.” It would be “nothing less than a disgrace.” Why, it would be using “our troops as pawns in a political game.”

That’s what GOP lawmakers said when a Republican president was in the White House, and it was Democrats who were trying to put on the brakes on a war supplemental bill.

If Kit Bond thinks such political maneuvers are acceptable in 2009, he should be asked to explain why Democratic members who opposed previous war spending bills were accused of surrendering to terrorists or using the troops as political pawns.