Well, *he* didn't waste any time.
Unlike, say, the Democratic Party.
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All that energy, rhetoric and wholesale bribery to create a bill that got cold-clocked on arrival:
Bush vetoes troop withdrawal bill
By ANNE FLAHERTY and JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press WritersWASHINGTON -
President Bush vetoed legislation to pull U.S. troops out of
Iraq Tuesday night in a historic showdown with Congress over whether the unpopular and costly war should end or escalate.It was a day of high political drama, falling on the fourth anniversary of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech declaring that major combat operations had ended in Iraq.
Because, hey, financial coverage of the troops should always take a back seat to a Democratic politician being a sanctimonious demagogue.
Read on.
Now, before our lurkers rejoice at this quote-unquote rebuke, I have an observation and a suggestion.
The observation: If you think that you're going to use this veto to somehow stop the war, think again.
Lacking the votes to override the president, Democrats have already signaled they intend to approve a replacement bill stripped of the troop withdrawal timetable. Determined to challenge Bush's policy, they are turning their attention to setting goals for the Iraqi government to meet as it struggles to establish a more secure, democratic society.
The White House and congressional Republicans have also called for so-called benchmarks, but only if they don't mandate a troop withdrawal or some other major change in war policy.
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Let me translate this for you: the new bill will have no withdrawal timetable. What it will have will be all that lovely pork that your most ethical Congressional leaders in history stuffed into this shambling zombie of a bill in order to get a one vote majority in the House, coupled with a non-binding call for benchmarks. The President will sign that one - reluctantly - because the military needs the blipping money. He'll then ignore the benchmarks as being an obnoxious attempt at legislative interference in the executive branch of government. Then your Dear Leaders will sit all y'all down and gently explain that at least this way it's all on the record, so, really, you won after all.
Now give them some more money for the 2008 elections.
To put it more simply yet: this entire situation has been an exercise in allowing Democratic politicians to raid the public treasury and then expecting their base to praise them for it. Which they undoubtedly will.
And as for my suggestion? I suggest that the people who create a replacement supplemental bill read this document beforehand. I blipping well expect that the people trying to justify their Party's antics do so as well.
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The Washington Post reports:
- Billions of dollars for heating subsidies, farmers and wildfire fighting are likely to be dropped when lawmakers draw up a second bill after Bush's veto of the first. Additional money for the Pentagon, veterans and hurricane victims is likely to survive.
... and ...
- Democrats have already dropped much-mocked money for peanut and sugar beet farmers, U.S. Capitol tour guides, avocado and orange growers, spinach producers and grants to Denver and Minneapolis, the host cities of next year's political conventions.
Do you really believe these people will walk away from pork ?
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
That's not what it's about. Everyone knows this, making a post like this makes us out to be idiots. I don't post many comments but seeing this .....
There's a lot to complain about, not "it's the pork" crap your posting here.
You’re a persistent cuss, pilgrim.
John Wayne to Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
let's not count our chickens before they fly south for the winter
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling
that what they do could cause the loss of more G.I.'s, they only want to please thier base and try to get more power.
I believe the Dems in Congress are cowards.
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
John Paul Jones (letter to M. Le Ray de Chaumont,16 Nov.1778)
this entire situation has been an exercise in allowing Democratic politicians to raid the public treasury and then expecting their base to praise them for it.
Raiding the treasury with the expectation of praise, reelection and pats on the head has become a bipartisan activity of late. The one difference is that the left actually seems to enjoy being robbed.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777