Senate reverses Bush’s budget cuts.
By on Oct 23rd, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Senate reverses Bush’s budget cuts.
In a 75-19 vote, the Senate today “reversed President Bush’s cuts to education, health research and grants to local communities as they gird for Bush’s first-ever veto of a regular appropriations bill.”
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Very Very nice
More please!
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:22 pmLooks like they have the votes to override any veto.
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:27 pmLooks like they have the votes to override any veto.
Comment by Zooey — October 23, 2007 @ 10:27 pm
Republican Senators know that specific bill will end their careers….
funding hundreds of billions for stupid wars that everybody hates while cutting kids education….
voters will be in mood for blood.
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:31 pmvoters will be in mood for blood.
Comment by overlap — October 23, 2007 @ 10:31 pm
As long as they’re doing it for the right reasons.
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:35 pm/sarc
Yay, a minor victory against the 24%ers. Bush has put the country in a blender for 6 years, and the Dems have found a small Band-Aid to stop the bleeding from one of the hundreds of wounds. Yay.
Too bad most of the 24%ers vote, whereas most of the 76%ers do not. Hey, maybe if the Dems did something drastic they could pull more of the 76%ers into the voting booths. Maybe something like madating that any defense funding go to withdrawal. Maybe something like withdrawing from NAFTA and WTO. Maybe something like universal healthcare. Maybe something like raising the minimum wage above $7.50 (who can really live off of that?).
But no, it looks like the Dems would prefer to keep the issues rather than solve them, because that way, they can win the next election. Yay. The Dems can win elections! Mission Accomplished!
…meanwhile, Americans keep suffering and dying.
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:52 pmWell, people should understand that Bush can’t actually spend $34 billions on healthcare for children!
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:00 pmHe needs this money to keep other children fighting HIS war in Iraq! He knows that at the end of the day he will be able to redirect this money to the war, benefiting all the special interests that are now making money with the war.
With an extra $34 billions, how many more troops may die???
This is a beginning…so much more to go.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:07 pmListening to Mike Malloy…someone emailed in stating the area BlackWater wants to build it’s camp, that area in particular is mysteriously very scorched from the fire.
VETO!
Comment by michael — October 23, 2007 @ 10:25 pm
girly man republican… you’re back!
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:43 pmHere’s what Barbie Doll Perino had to say about it. She’s wrong. Everyone but the 24%ers know that Bush doesn’t give a rats ass about children unless they are of volunteer age so he can bribe them into his military and send them to Iraq to be cannon fodder.
“In passing this bill, Democrats in Congress will say that the president doesn’t care about children or education or health research,” said White House press secretary Dana Perino. “We’ve all heard these tired old lines before. The facts demonstrate the president’s strong and consistent commitment to children, education and health research — and the American people are smart enough to know that there is no such thing as a free lunch.”
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:56 pmand the American people are smart enough to know that there is no such thing as a free lunch.â€
Comment by bilbobaggins — October 23, 2007 @ 11:56 pm
And yet Repub businessmen can’t figure this out…
October 24th, 2007 at 12:03 amPerino is very tirsome and her rhetoric is the same old double speak we have been hearing for 7 years from the Bush crime family And California is going to have to stomach Bush’s visit tomorrow… more double speak, more photo ops.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:10 amMinority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., countered, “The spending hike they are asking for in this one bill, if allowed to continue at the same rate, will cost the American taxpayer $120 billion over the next ten years.”
So umm Mitch: Whats the war in Iraq going to cost and how long will be paying for it. A$$hole
October 24th, 2007 at 12:15 amWow what a novel idea. Spending American taxpayer dollars on Americans. You have to really hate America to do that hun.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:17 amUS boosts oversight for Iraq contractors
By MATTHEW LEE and ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writers 33 minutes ago
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday ordered new measures to improve government oversight of private guards who protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq, including tighter rules of engagement and a board to investigate any future killings.
I heard of being a day late and a dollar short but with the bush regime it’s there always years late and billions of dollars wasted.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:24 amThis is what I call “impeachment in slow motion”, meaning: Let the American people know where the Republicans stand on the important issues of the day, (too bad it cannot be done with the Iraq war due to the “troop support” argument), and do it constantly until the next election.
Notice the number of Republican Senators who are choosing the opposite side from their president (enough for a veto proof majority). Doesn’t that tell you something about Bush43’s actual relevance?
October 24th, 2007 at 1:55 amMinority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., countered, “The spending hike they are asking for in this one bill, if allowed to continue at the same rate, will cost the American taxpayer $120 billion over the next ten years.â€
There you go Mitch….run on that statement in 2008. Please. Unfortunately for you, we aren’t all idiots that vote against our best interests.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:25 amNow Chimpy gets to prove that he is relevant by doing something stupid and destructive to his own party.
October 24th, 2007 at 3:15 amMitch McConnell: ……….”will cost the American taxpayer $120 billion over the next ten years”.
Let’s see Senator: $120 billion in ten years, that comes out to $12 billion per year which is the equivalent to the cost of ONE MONTH for the war in Iraq. That dog won’t hunt Mitch!
October 24th, 2007 at 3:21 amBush is intent on issuing vetoes and has so far rebuffed Democratic pleas for negotiations.
George Bush, November 2006: “it is now our duty to put the elections behind us and work together with the Democrats”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061108-2.html
October 24th, 2007 at 7:16 amWe here for years have called for our rights to be protected/restored by the democrats. Since November they have actually given Bush MORE power…
A bill in the house seeks to do exactly what everyone here has been calling for…
American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 (H.R. 3835)
On this website you can easily contact your representatives to ask for their help with this bill…
http://capwiz.com/jbs/issues/alert/?alertid=10449681&type=CO
I have seen progressives mobilize many times over the past seven years… now we have a chance to actually support a bill that specifically restores our rights and puts Bush back in check. I have participated myself on all kinds of issue brought up and pushed by TP… please take a closer look at this bill.
American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 (H.R. 3835)
October 24th, 2007 at 8:29 amAll these phony legislative maneuvers aren’t convincing anyone that Dems’ approach is better. The approval rating of Congress shows that Bush can sustain vetoes, making Pelosi and Reid seem small.
Amazing how your one track mind has allowed your advantage to evaporate in such a short time.
October 24th, 2007 at 8:46 amOn this website you can easily contact your representatives to ask for their help with this bill…
http://capwiz.com/ jbs/ issues/ alert/ ?alertid=10449681&type=CO
Interesting times we live in when we are sent to a John Birth Society webpage to stand up for the restoration of the constitution!
October 24th, 2007 at 9:09 amThis is a start.
Let Bush try to veto this, just as he vetoed SCHIP. Let him be on record as the worst president for America and its people in history.
Let him futilely attempt to defend himself to the charges that he doesn’t care about children, the sick, the elderly, and the infrastructure.
October 24th, 2007 at 10:23 ambut I’m betting the President will win this anti-pork battle as well.
Comment by TCDon — October 24, 2007 @ 9:39 am
Win this battle? Sure, why not another pyrrhic “victory” for the Chimp-in-Charge? He’s already lost two real wars, but he is winning the war to destroy the GOP just fine.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:08 pm$46 Billion more for Iraq? Bush cultists are on board.
$1.2 Billion unaccounted for in Iraq? Bush cultists don’t care.
More money for education, health research and grants to local communities? Bush cultists say HOLD THE LINE ON SPENDING!
What we have here is a perfect demonstration of values.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:18 pmInteresting times indeed. Maybe Americans can stop stabbing each other in the back and start accepting our differences as reasonable people… and then come together to get the Constitution back in charge…?
October 24th, 2007 at 3:21 pm