Posted on 11/02/2007 10:34:40 AM PDT by SmithL
Veto everything. Last rodeo, etc.
Repeal the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty, too.
Sounds like he is cutting off the EPA!
Woo Hoo!
Bump UCANN. Nice to SEE you!
Looks like our Texas Cowboy CIC has finally decided to put his spurs into the liberal democrats!
He may have had his spurs, somewhere. But he hasn’t spoken to us this much before. Could be because the enemy is within; but we just don’t know.
bttt
The reason for the veto seems rather obvious. The House approved a $14 billion waterworks bill, and the Senate approved a $15 billion companion bill. Rather than split the difference and approve a $14.5 billion bill, or even go with the Senate’s $15 billion, the conference committee reported out a $23 billion bill that proves that when pork multiplies, it’s because taxpayers are getting screwed.
Seriously — how did an extra $8 billion get added to the bill in conference?
That’s an increase of over 50% from the Senate bill, in conference. The larger embarrassment is that our elected representatives didn’t see this greedy manipulation of the conference process as any big deal and overwhelmingly supported the results.
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/015800.php
The $23 billion water bill passed in both chambers of Congress by well more than the two-thirds majority needed to vacate a veto and make the bill law. Bush objected to the $9 billion in projects added during negotiations between the House and Senate.Give 'em one they can override that isn't monstrously detrimental to national security, it's good politics. Well played, Mr. President.
Bush is now doing what Reagan never did, veto the pork.
Better late than never.
Agreed. But the fact that there are enough Republican scumbags to help the rats override his veto is troubling, to say the least.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Correct!
To this link all of Clinton’s vetoes were after 1994.
http://www.rules.house.gov/archives/98-147.pdf
Exactly, Rodm, billions on swamps!! To me, ‘restoring wetlands’ is irrelevant. They don’t want wetlands in the Netherlands — they have dammed the water off and made the wetlands into FARMLAND. How about that? Swamps are good for malaria and alligators. Isn’t this kind of like introducing wolves back into Yellowstone?
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