Posted on 05/22/2008 3:36:35 PM PDT by pissant
CAPITOL HILL (AP) -- Brushing aside a veto by President Bush, Congress today enacted a massive election-year farm bill.
The 82-13 vote in the Senate followed a 316-108 vote in the House last night.
However, not all of the bill that Congress passed last week is becoming law right away. Because of a printing error, the version that Bush vetoed was missing 34 pages on international food aid and trade. That mistake may require Congress to send the White House yet another bill.
House Republicans called the error a sign of the Democrats' incompetence, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the process is entirely legal.
Former Senate parliamentarian Robert Dove agreed, saying, "it really doesn't matter what Congress actually does, all that matters is what goes to the president."
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In order to get elected they put themselves in the pockets of those that can get them elected. After they get elected they get into your pockets to fill the pockets of those that got them there or are keeping them there.
Other than term limits, I don’t see anyway to stop this.
Elect conservatives as opposed to repuiblicans?
Yes that would work, except that the way things are now, the Conservative would have to run as either a Republican or a Democrat. Right now there doesn’t seem to be a dimes worth of difference between the two parties. In order to get an endorsement from either of those two parties it would seem reasonable that “concessions” would have to be made.
I agree. hence my tagline. 2012, baby.
Just book marked the site referenced in your tagline and shall read through it. - Thanx
They can, but they won't. Their phony-baloney jobs have become more important than principle. I expect that from Democrats, but not Republicans, who ought to understand that they sometimes need to stand up to rather than cave in to what the majority desires. That is called "leadership". Instead, we are given Profiles in Cowardice.
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