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The least surprising news of the day
For the second time in his presidency, Bush whipped out the veto pen and wrote a big old “F.U.” on some legislation sitting on his desk. It should come as a surprise to nobody that said legislation was the Iraq war spending bill which included timelines for a troop withdrawal.
Bush said the timeline was a “prescription for chaos and confusion.” Say what you will about Bush, but he should be quite good at recognizing chaos and confusion in Iraq at this point. Bush also scolded the Dems for unnecessary political shenanigans: “They’ve sent their message, and now it’s time to put politics behind us and support our troops with the funds.” Bush calling for putting politics behind us isn’t just the pot calling the kettle black, it’s the pot calling the kettle a “nappy handled kettle,” right?
Nancy Pelosi responded to Bush’s post-veto speech by trying to show some balls of her own: “If the president thinks by vetoing this bill he’ll stop us from working to change the course of the war in Iraq, he is mistaken.” And because we’re already in the thick of the 2008 Presidential Election, all the major Dem candidates came out with statements of their own too, chastising Bush for ignoring the will of the people and the Congress.
So, what’s next? Well, the House is set to vote on a veto override tomorrow, but that’s fully expected to fail. After that, the next step from the Dems seems to be a new funding bill with some type of benchmarks and other restrictions on Bush’s ability to run the war, but it remains unseen how much of a divide this will create with both the Republicans and the more liberal Democrats. So there are good times ahead.
Comments
And maybe when they send the president a new spending bill, it will be without the 20% surcharge for all that pork the dems were pushing...
Posted by rbb | May 2, 2007 1:21 PM
Poor commenter rbb probably went insane in prior years when GOP Congresses would use military bills to gut enviro laws, pass narrow tax breaks for their buddies and load up on the porky lard! Or maybe it's only pork when Dems do it.
Posted by DP | May 2, 2007 4:41 PM
Pork is pork and it sucks no matter who puts it in the spending bills. What makes it worse is when the dems make it a campaign issue and then conveniently forget their promises after the elections...
Posted by rbb | May 3, 2007 9:08 AM
"Bush calling for putting politics behind us isn’t just the pot calling the kettle black, it’s the pot calling the kettle a “nappy handled kettle,” right?"
That's cute. Doesn't mean he doesn't have a point though. As someone with a loved one in the military (both of us are liberals and iffy on the whole caboodle, by the way), this is thoroughly ridiculous. It's a publicity grab, and has no one's true interests at heart except the politicians.
And it is snarky, biased, it's-ok-to hate-groups-of-people-as-long-as-its-not-a-genetic-group attitude that makes me kinda wish I didn't agree with liberals. The average liberal is just as bigoted as anyone else - only they hate people for not agreeing with them instead of not being them. How is that any better?
Posted by Meg | May 6, 2007 4:50 PM