Letters to the Editor
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If only
Hillary and Barack had balls like that.
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I like her more and more...
though Bay Area politics scares the shit outta me. What the hell is wrong with Oakland anyway?
O-gins loves me some San Francisco liberals.
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Yep
I can't imagine Dick Gebhardt and Tom Daschle having this much fight in them.
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Kick It, Nancy
That's the kind of rhetoric I like to hear from my Speaker of the House.
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I don't see why Mr. Bush is holding out on this
As a practical matter, Mr. Bush has about a year to deliver a dramatic improvement in Iraq. If he fails to do so, his support in Congress will either evaporate or will be replaced in the coming election. Mr. Bush himself will certainly be replaced in that election, and his successor is unlikely to continue his policies.
Whether Mr. Bush likes it or not, he has a hard deadline coming up. If I can figure this out, so can the enemy in Iraq (whoever they are). All Mr. Bush is doing is delaying the inevitible, and doing more damage to the Republicans in the process.
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Can anyone tell me why?
Not that I expected any of the names to really change, but Pelosi has to feel good that she picked up more votes than originally voted for the measure - but why did Dennie Kucinich vote "Present"? Is that some procedural vote to bring it up later? As a candidate, wouldn't/shouldn't he be out front to override the President?
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll276.xml
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Note on Kucinich
Kucinich is against funding the war, period. I'm guessing he refused to vote either with the president or for continued funding of the war.
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The opinions of politicians are just fine when telling women how to live their lives
Oh, how rich! Bush doesn't want the "opinions of politicians" over those of the "commanders on the ground." And yet the "opinions of politicians" should outweigh the medical people "on the ground" with a woman, making a decision that affects her health and well-being.
Bush can always be counted on to say absolutely anything at all depending on the situation. As long as it works for him, that's all that matters. Truth, let alone consistency, is certainly no hobgoblin for him.
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They Just Don't Get It!
I'm pretty sure that American voters sent a clear message about this war during the last election. Unfortunately, the message has been ignored by the President and a delusional Republican Party. "Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican minority leader, was quoted in the New York Times saying, "Why is winning in Iraq so important? In my view and others, al Qaeda has made Iraq the central front in their war with us.”
Now wait, did I read that right? Boehner says that al Qaeda made Iraq the central front on their war with us? Is he nuts? Al Qaeda did not make Iraq the "central front," the Bush administration did! Al Queda didn't have a "central front" until the neocons provided one with their unjustified, ill-conceived, and horribly executed invasion of Iraq. Only after they set up the "central front" for them did al Qaeda take advantage of it and kill off several thousand American young people. Somebody want to tell me why it was such a great idea to give a terrorist organization a "central front?" And if it is a good idea to "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" then what the heck was wrong with Afghanistan, home of al Qaeda?
The answer is simple; there is no good reason, just as there is no good justification for this war. The problem is that Boehner and the rest of the Republican party are terribly afraid that, if they admit that they are wrong and that their war cannot be won, they will look like fools who have wasted American lives on a war that was based on a lie and never should have been waged. Unfortunately for them, and for our troops, the Republicans do not understand that they look even more foolish for staying the course when the American people have already overwhelmingly told them that this is the wrong course.
My guess is that, in the end, the American political landscape will have to be rendered as devoid of Republicans as the desert of Iraq was of weapons of mass destruction. Maybe then Boner Boehner and the Bush Boys will finally get the message.
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Pass another funding bill with restrictions, send it back up to the White House and make the miserable bastard veto it again. Rinse. Repeat.
Keep doing until he says Uncle!
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Nancy for President!
I keep saying that whenever I see her on TV. I much prefer her to Hillary as our first female president.
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Rsdier
If you play the impeachment cards right, she can be.
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Give Em Hell Nancy
And AMEN saintzak!
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I don't like Pelosi
But I like that reaction. I would have liked it more if she pointed out that Bush substituted the judgement of the commanders on the ground with his judgement when he replaced the commanders on the ground with those who were willing to tell him what he wanted to hear. But Pelosi's reaction was a close second.
I'd also like it if she continuously pointed out that, while the Democrats support the troops fully, we do not support his ill-advised, ill-planned, illegal and immoral war. I don't see that nearly enough in print.
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"Wrong again, Mr. President."
God, I love it when she talks tough like that. The next bill should address cutting off the funding for Blackwater and the shadow army of mercenaries. No concessions -- this is not the time to get mealy mouthed.
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Damn, Pelosi!
Her disses are always so carefully crafted. It's pleasant to remember that literacy and toughness aren't mutually exclusive.
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More votes to overturn than to pass in the first place ?!?!?
"...four more representatives voted to overturn Bush's veto than voted for the measure in the first place."
Help me out here--am I missing something or is this highly remarkable?
Support for almost any measure fades after a veto. But in this case, at LEAST four representatives who originally voted AGAINST the measure must have basically thought, "Well, if Bush is against it, then I'm for it."
More than four opponents must have seen the light, if anyone else thought "I supported it before, but I'm not going to go against the president."
Is Congressional opposition to this incompetent president and his failed war growing THAT fast?
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@Prairiefire
I think that the reason that the override vote picked up four more votes than the original was that the override was essentially a cosmetic vote.
Now those four can tell their constituents that they voted for the bill during the '08 campaign, but not actually worry about that vote having any effect as they knew that the Senate is not taking up the override.
Am I cynical? Good golly yes! But nowhere near as cynical as those four.