Dunce of the Day: Nancy reads war-funding measure only after it passes.
(and she knows the veto will reduce it soon to dust anyway)
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The President will veto the version of Pelosi-Murtha war funding measure which has emerged from conference. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recommended the report last week, it passed the House last Wednesday, and it passed the Senate on Thursday. The Dems have been working on their post-veto strategy for a while now, even before they send the darn thing to the President to be rejected.
Funny thing. According to today's CQ Daily, after all this has been done, Speaker Pelosi now insists on reading the thing for the first time!
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"It's a major piece of legislation and you have to go through it word for word and line by line," Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said Monday. "She believes this is very important legislation, which she will sign and the president will receive Tuesday."
Oh, why not be clear on this. Nancy endorsed a measure which she hadn't read. The House passed it, and she knows it will never become law. Her party is already working on a version the President might sign, so this is a very dead bill. But Nancy wanted to read it before sending it off to be rejected.
Nah, it's the timing. She could have sent the bill to the President on Thursday or perhaps even on Monday – when the House was off for the funeral of Representative Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-California) – but she wanted to send the bill to the President on May 1. The headline from this day, four years ago, was: President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended. Our soldiers bravely fight while Nancy plays games on her political playground.
But she said she wanted to read it. I wish someone in our media, as watchdog and guardian of this and that, would give the gal a pop quiz.
Well, she's done what she wanted to do: turn this war funding vote into a political show. Mission accomplished, Nancy.
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legislation she signs since this is an exception.
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison
Reading it to check for spelling and punctuation errors. It has happened before, you know.
But it is obvious that she timed it for the anniversary of the "Mission Accomplished" banner, to fight propaganda with propaganda.
I do. But I honestly have no idea what will come after the veto. It appears that neither side is willing to give in, so to speak - eventually, though, someone will have to blink.
Said approval makes you, by the way, utterly appalling. [Just to make sure that you never get to claim that nobody ever told you otherwise.]
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
to use that particular adjective to describe me. This, as I said below, it's all political theater. Both sides use it.
You admit that you approve of this action, so why are you trying to make excuses for it?
Instead, preen.
Moe
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
Because I'm cynical. It's a fight, right? You have to be willing to do what the other guy or gal won't do, at least until the voters/public/media/bloggers realize that you're baseless and opportunistic. Example from my side: Kerry went low with the "Mary Cheney is a lesbian" comment, and all of the above groups noticed.
...the chaplain's gone over the hill.
You said it yourself: you approve of this. You approve of this. It was your choice to make. It is thus your responsibility for the consequences of your choices. Both the good and the bad.
So why don't you deal with those consequences, then, and spare us? I never asked you why you approved of Pelosi's tawdry little game: frankly, I don't care why.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
I have no problem dealing with the consequences of Pelosi's actions and tactics today, as much as they can directly affect me. Your honesty is always refreshing.
I have no problem with political theater as long as the politicians are up front about it. I would disagree with them, but still have some respect for them. The lie about needing to read this bill is extremely insulting to everyone's intelligence.
About wanting to read the final version of the bill. The timing is clearly theater, and I'll give you that she could have proofed it before today, but if there was an error in the final production of the language, I would want to catch it.
Wouldn't ya'll make more fun of Pelosi if there was a mistake in the copy of the bill?
I did not say that she is lying about needing to read it. She is lying about reading it being the excuse for delaying sending it to the President.
That she read the bill before it was passed, and is now reading it to make sure that it's perfect before Bush vetoes it, for whatever good that will do. And I agree that she's timing it to bring attention to Bush's speech.
So you admit she is lying about having to read this before signing it. Not only is she lying, but it is a ridiculous lie.
What I meant. There have been occasions in which the final version of a bill that was presented to the president for signing contained word changes or punctuation problems. I believe that the last such situation occured during the last session of Congress. The Senate and House had passed a conference bill with slightly different wording. The Democrats tried to use the discrepancy to kill the bill. They were unsucessful.
What we're dealing with here is political theater, plain and simple, from both sides. This is nothing new.
worst/dumbest thing of the day kind of post that everyone gets to vote on or open thread about?
I'm voting for Nasty Nan, she gets the nod for both today!
Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin
"During my lifetime, all our problems have come from mainland Europe, and all the solutions from the English-speaking nations across the world." - Thatcher
Does Bush have to veto this today? Why can't he wait a day and veto it tomorrow? One day isn't going to change anything except the carefully planned Democratic propaganda.
Either way, Pelosi does not look good. Everyone and their brother knows that this is being timed to embarrass the President. Making stupid excuses like this to justify the timing is incredibly dumb politics and needless. Republicans should call her on this. She should be raked over the coals and she deserves it.