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Things will get very ugly very quickly, because the Democrats plan to widen their conflict with Bush:
Even as their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq escalates, emboldened congressional Democrats are challenging the White House on a range of issues — such as unionization of airport security workers and the loosening of presidential secrecy orders — with even more dramatic showdowns coming soon.For his part, Bush, who also finds himself under assault for the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the conduct of the Iraq war and alleged abuses in government surveillance by the FBI, is holding firm. Though he has vetoed only one piece of legislation since taking office, he has vowed to veto 16 bills that have passed either the House or the Senate in the three months since Democrats took control of Congress.
Despite the threats, Democratic lawmakers expect to open new fronts against the president when they return from their spring recess, including politically risky efforts to quickly close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; reinstate legal rights for terrorism suspects; and rein in what Democrats see as unwarranted encroachments on privacy and civil liberties allowed by the USA Patriot Act.
“I suppose there’s always a risk of going too far,” said House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), “but the risk of not going is far greater.”
Backed by a unified party and fresh from a slew of legislative victories, Democratic leaders appear to believe there is hardly any territory they cannot stray onto, a development that has Republican political operatives gleeful and some Democrats worried. Rep. Tom Cole (Okla.), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, warned of a “political price” at the polls: “If they let their constituents and their ideology drive them past the point where the American people are comfortable, they will find how quickly the voters will react.”
I look forward to the vetos.
Captain Ed says:
It’s good advice. The Democrats are about to retreat on Iraq war spending, after giving Bush an opportunity for an easy veto. It’s bad enough that the Democrats played a game of chicken that they couldn’t possibly win the last two weeks. They compounded the error by larding the final bills up with so much pork that Bush can now easily justify the veto on the grounds of containing corruption — and make the Democrats look as if they will only fund the troops if they can get their own snouts into the trough as well.
Bush vows to fight Democrats on Land, Sea and Air from The Crimson Blog
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22 Responses to “The Democrats Can’t Govern, So They Start A Domestic Political War Which They Can’t Win”
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I don’t see how they can blame this ‘working together’ thing on President Bush; their behavior is despicable.
That is their game..smoke and mirrors. Deflect the fact that they have nothing to work with, and/or, refuse to do their jobs, and make it appear that it is the POTUS that is the one that is the problem….This is classic Daschle 101.
A Leopard can’t change his spots and a Liberal Democrat can’t help being a dishonest, corrupt, liar.
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Even though I think both parties are despicable, I honestly believe this came to a head because of Algore and his behaviour after the 2000 elections.
He had a chance to bbe a real leader, and blew it. I thnk that is why Clinton distanced himself from Gore.
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4- That is a great point. I pick on Bubba, that I will admit, but one thing i will say is that for all the time he was a slave to his poll numbers, he didn’t pander to the nutroots out there!
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