Bush is acting as a conservative. Let’s give him credit for these actions. He should have taken this stance a long time ago but better late than never.
Can Someone list the pork that in this deal?
GW has really gotten his groove back.
Keep up the good vetoes Mr. President.
"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
I always love how the AP can make such presumptions without proof.
Attempting to demonstrate fiscal toughness now, in the seventh year of his presidency, carried the risk being criticized for doing too little, too late or as waging a transparently partisan attack against the Democrats who now run Capitol Hill.
The AP again jumps to it's own conclusions while editorializing that in vetoing this bill, it's "too little" or "too late" or a "partisan attack" while ignoring the possibility that it was the right thing to do, overridden or not.
LLS
Good for us. Good for the President. He deserves high praise for this.
Bush actually vetoed another bill!!???
Somebody must’ve opened their Funk and Wagnalls to the right page so he could spell it correctly!!!
This is nice to see, but I can’t help but be cynical that only in the final year or so of his presidency does President Bush attempt to reign in spending. It seems he’s only doing it as a political move to paint the Dems in a certain way. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending the Dems here - they’re no doubt even worse over-spending pork-barrelers than the Repubs.
It’s just that if the Republican Congress of, say, 2006 would have sent Bush this same bill (and trust me, they have sent him many similar ones), he would have signed it. If we get a Republican president in 2009, I hope he will be an economic conservative from the start of his presidency, not just in the final 15 months.
Is Harry Reid even from this Solar System? I used to think he might not be from this planet, but I figured out he wasn't with his "Surge Failed" speech before the surge.
I watched brave people risk their lives (not shemp smith) to rescue people down there and Harry Reid acts as if Bush told them to "go buy a boat".
“When we override this irresponsible veto, perhaps the president will finally recognize that Congress is an equal branch of government and reconsider his many other reckless veto threats,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
This is patently false. They are not equal. But they are reckless...with taxpayer $$$.
Veto everything. Last rodeo, etc.
Repeal the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty, too.
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.