What Is The Democratic Congressional Leadership Thinking?

[Annie]

They really do need to do some soul searching here, as they are going beyond mere politics into jeopardizing our national security, both militarily and economically:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/pr...cles/2007/11/a_failed_congressional_ploy.html

A Failed Congressional Ploy
By Robert Novak

WASHINGTON -- The ploy had been hatched behind closed doors by Democratic leaders of both houses. A pork-laden appropriations bill filled with $1 billion in earmarks would combine with veto-proof spending for veterans. Instead, the two measures were decoupled in a Senate party-line vote last Tuesday.

The Democratic scheme to present President George W. Bush with a bill that he could not veto seemed a clever strategy, but it was based on presumption of Republican ignorance and cowardice. As late as last Monday, savvy GOP Senate staffers predicted Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's decoupling motion would fail. In fact, she did not lose a Republican senator, as Democrats fell far short of the 60 votes needed to keep the two bills together.

During a confusing week on Capitol Hill, lawmakers engaged in games difficult for insiders to understand and incomprehensible for ordinary voters. As the first Congress controlled by Democrats since 1994 nears the end of its first year, the desire to bring home the bacon trumped concern over the falling dollar, the crisis in Pakistan and the continuing conflict in Iraq....

 

[CSM]

They really do need to do some soul searching here, as they are going beyond mere politics into jeopardizing our national security, both militarily and economically:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/pr...cles/2007/11/a_failed_congressional_ploy.html

Just another example of where politicians real concerns lie.

 

[William Joyce]

You've heard of the "line item veto"? Next time we write the Constitution, I propose LINE-ITEM BILLS, i.e., you can't load stuff up in a single bill -- it's gotta be for one thing only.

 

[Paulie]

I propose LINE-ITEM BILLS, i.e., you can't load stuff up in a single bill -- it's gotta be for one thing only.

Yeah, I can think of a few choice one's the past couple years.