House Fails to Override Bush Veto on Iraq
Can the vetoing President and the non-overrideable Congress find a middle ground over what to do with this messy war? What happens to the Appropiations Bill now? Does Congress and the Prez stop spending until something is passed? HA! Do things just revert back to status quo? Presumably so. What's the next step for the Democrats?
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The next step for for everyone on both sides to start playing a little game of give and take. We need to clean up the earmarks in the big and come to a conclusion that we all can live with.....or we will be in a stalemate....
I don't think the real argument is about earmarks or anything like that, but rather a timetable for withdrawal and the benchmarks that accompany it. As John Murtha pointed out on Sunday, the Democrats will use impeachment of Bush as a threat, if not real possibility. It is interesting, though, that 57% of the American public favors setting a timetable for withdrawal (Gallup Poll 4/23-6, 07). This is especially interesting given just 24% of all Americans support the way Bush is currently handling the war (CBS/NY TIMES poll 4/20-4, 07). We'll see how this plays, but my guess is that the Democrats hold off on serious threats of impeachment...for now at least. More than likely, Democrats continue to fry Bush saying he's obstructing real progress in Iraq by failing to acknowledge the reality of civil war in Iraq. All this veto does is adds fuel to the fire for Democrats.
I think it is really pathetic that now that the dems have control of the house they are using the funding as a way of trying to control the rest of the government. I know that they are only being stategic but sometimes the stratedgy shouldnt cost the lives of the ones protecting us...
Emergency funding means right now, not when they stop arguing.
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