Yeah, Mr. Waxman, it’s Bush’s fault, even though, in the final analysis, it is the job of Congress to write and pass such bills. Now that’s chutzpah. That Bush is something else, I tell you. He’s both perfectly incompetent, and responsible for each and every thing that happens anywhere at any time. All at the same time!
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Hey, if we can term limit a president, why not the Congress? Well, THAT is just another episode of "We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us!"Angry black woman: Are you sayin’ the Democratic Party don’t care about the African-American community?
Bullworth: Isn’t that OBVIOUS? You got half your kids are out of work and the other half are in jail. Do you see ANY Democrat doing anything about it? Certainly not me! So what’re you gonna do, vote Republican? Come on! Come on, you’re not gonna vote Republican! Let’s call a spade a spade!
[Loud, angry booing]
Bullworth: I mean - come on! You can have a Billion Man March! If you don’t put down that malt liquor and chicken wings, and get behind someone other than a running back who stabs his wife, you’re NEVER gonna get rid of somebody like me! |
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Yeah, Mr. Waxman, it’s Bush’s fault If you read further into the article, it reveals that the language was put in the bill by the Republican chairman of the Armed Services Comittee. It is very credible to suggest that Dick Cheney put a word in this guy’s ear. Or is the Republican Administration coordinating with the Republican legislative heads of Congressional commitees really such an incredibly far-fetched scenario? Only when you get to make fun of someone.
How do *you* think the Republican Adminstration would have gone about having these investigations killed? Maybe Bush would make a speech at a press conference about how the inspector general’s reports on corruption are hurting the morale of our troops? Maybe he could claim that the guy is in league with the liberal media?
I set that up as a strawman, but hey, it sounds almost plausible. |
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It is very credible to suggest that Dick Cheney put a word in this guy’s ear Where’s MK to defend Cheney? I mean, he was all over us for ’misinterpreting’ sKerry and for ’reading his mind’. Here’s glasnost suggesting Cheney ’put a word in someones ear!’. Oh the humanity. |
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The President did sign the bill
Is he not expected to know what he is signing?
If he didn’t know, what does that say about his competency?
If he did know, what does that say about his complicity? |
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How do *you* think the Republican Adminstration would have gone about having these investigations killed? The real question is how do *you* think Bushie and the PNAC Neocons would have gone about knocking down the World Trade Center. Maybe the plan said Chimpy would sit in an elementary school reading about a goat as cover!
Think of the possibilities, man! So, are you gonna hit that bong, or what? |
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Yeah, Mr. Waxman, it’s Bush’s fault, even though, in the final analysis, it is the job of Congress to write and pass such bills. This is where you see fit to conclude a very interesting and telling piece of information, a knock on a guy who is speaking up against it?
Bush=Republican Congress and Republican Senate.
That is why we have come to call them the rubber stamp congress and/or the do-nothing-congress.
Congress has nothing to lose by doing it’s job, but yet it fails at every turn, because the President DOES have something to lose when this stuff is brought to light.
Apparently, Republicans things any bad news affecting the Republican President affects them... and because of their lack of oversight, they have made this a self fulfilling propehcy.
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A reminder of what’s at stake on Tuesday. |
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If you read further into the article, it reveals that the language was put in the bill by the Republican chairman of the Armed Services Comittee. Which as zip to do with "this administration", a term normally used to refer to the executive branch. |
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Which as zip to do with "this administration", a term normally used to refer to the executive branch.
How true. And yet, I don’t know why you’re taking the approach that it’s far fetched to consider it plausible that the Admin was behind this. When dealing with legislative matters, the White House gets its way by making requests, often not publicized, of legislators Such as Tom Delay on the drug bill, John McCain on the detainee bill.. Ted Stevens on the highway bill... etc, etc, etc.
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Which as zip to do with "this administration", a term normally used to refer to the executive branch. I think we all know the process of getting a bill through Congress, and you are being obtuse.
We know that Congressmen ostensibly write bills, but as a practical matter, we also know lobbyists and others write bills and have Congressmen put their names on the bills.
I tend to follow the money, this benefits the Bush administration, so I would suspect that since they benefit, it is not unlikely that they would have initiated the action to get this put into the bill.
We’ll see what comes out, and I am not saying that I KNOW Bush did this, but my immediate speculation is that the administration pushed this.
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I’d be all for a term limit on Congressmen. My district, by the way, is Waxman’s (30th District in CA), and the Republican they’re running against him is uimpressive. |
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All the more reason that, following the success Porkbusters this last session, efforts should be made to create a web publication plus 48 hour waiting period requirement before final passage of all bills. Of course it is no guarantee, but it’s a good check and balance that will have a great many successes. |
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All the more reason that, following the success Porkbusters this last session, efforts should be made to create a web publication plus 48 hour waiting period requirement before final passage of all bills. Of course it is no guarantee, but it’s a good check and balance that will have a great many successes. I love it, a "cooling off period" for legislation.
But the terrorists....
But the children....
Count me in.
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I think we all know the process of getting a bill through Congress, and you are being obtuse. I’m being obtuse?
Heh ... who’s job is it to put legislation together and bring it to final approval through the conference report?
The administration? |
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I’m being obtuse? YES!!!Heh ... who’s job is it to put legislation together and bring it to final approval through the conference report? Yes, Congress does the paperwork.
Does anyone influence what goes into that paperwork? Of course.
For crying out loud Q, we have lobbyists writing laws, so is it a surprise that we don’t think of Congress as doing anything but what they are told to do?
Follow the money.
Duncan Hunter himself in is in tight with defense contractors, so this may be a simple quid pro quo, but the Bush administration has it’s own ties, so they could easily have encouraged this provision to be inserted.
Again, why do you think we call this the rubber stamp Congress? It’s because they do what they are told.
So don’t act all surprised when people think that if they do something, someone told them to.
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For crying out loud Q, we have lobbyists writing laws, so is it a surprise that we don’t think of Congress as doing anything but what they are told to do? Good lord.
Thus the title of the post!
Who’s being obtuse? Is BDS that strong?
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Who’s being obtuse?
When it was suggested that Congress was being influenced by the administration, you dropped back and suggested that people who mkae such a suggestion don’t understand how laws are made. Remember... "Which as zip to do with "this administration", a term normally used to refer to the executive branch." That comment was obtuse, we all know how the process works. |
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That comment was obtuse, we all know how the process works. So when they refer to the "Clinton administration", to what were they referring? |
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"The President did sign the bill"
And since his signature is not necessary for it to become law, what does that say about its relevancy? |
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