Posted by
JBDavis on Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:31:01 PM
Well he
vetoed the " We give up" bill:
WASHINGTON — In a move that is no surprise to anyone, President Bush on Tuesday issued the second veto of his administration, setting up a new battle with congressional Democrats over a war spending bill to fund troops in Iraq that also sets a timetable for withdrawal.
Can the Democrats accept this and get to work on a more sane bill? I doubt it,too. I hope they are satisfied, they made their point. The are ready to quit. I would be too, if the Terrorist were. But, they have stated time and again they are not.
I think the Democrats know this too. I have stated before that this is all a ploy to regain the White House. I caught a little bit of Rush's show this morning.
He agrees:
I said, "If it's Mrs. Clinton that's the next president or if it is the Breck Girl or if it's Obama, my guess is, they will not pull us out of Iraq. They're not going to do that. They're going to still engineer defeat. (Don't suggest that I've changed my mind about the Democrats owning defeat.) You don't have to be in the White House to secure defeat. They're doing everything they can to mobilize the enemy. They're doing everything they can to motivate the enemy. They're doing everything to de-motivate and demoralize US troops, but primarily you have to understand everything they do is through the political prism. This is all about reacquiring the White House in this massive surge for power that they're trying to get." What I'm saying is... You've heard Carl Levin say it, who, by the way, got protested in Michigan. He got protested at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor because he said, "We're never going to de-fund the troops. We've never done that. We're not going to do it now," and a couple of other Democrats have said this, too. So what's going on now is pure show; it's pure theatrics.
They still haven't figured out that they are the majority in Congress. You know, they can propose anything they want. They can do whatever they want. They're still, though, acting like the minority. They're just saying no to everything. They're just running around complaining and doing all sorts of screaming like spoiled little brats. But if they get to the White House, if they ever do, you have to think that they know what the real result would be of a massive pullout. What they're trying to do is get Bush to either, A, do it -- and they know he's not going to pull out, either. This is primary campaign mode, and this is keep their kook base happy time right now. I think there's a 60-40 chance they would not pull the troops out of Iraq. I mean this. I don't think they would. They know full-well what's going to happen to that region if we pull out of there. Snerdley is shouting in the IFB at me, "What makes you think they care?" This is a gut instinct of mine, and I admit I'm being charitable and generous with these people. They think anybody would have to know what happened -- if we declare defeat and pull out of there, they would love for it to happen when Bush is president, but not when they're running the show.
Do you think they want defeat saddled around their necks? No. They don't think that defeat will be saddled around their necks if they secure it before Bush leaves office. That's what all this legislation is about. This legislation is set up so that "Bush won't fund the troops; Bush is vetoing our funding bill."
"Well, yeah, your funding bill requires a pullout in less than a year."
"Well, that doesn't matter! He says the troops need the money and then he's vetoing it."
They're trying to transfer total authority of the war -- again, in a PR sense, or political sense -- to the president. They're trying to eliminate from anybody's memory that they all voted for it or 80% of them did. They're trying to eliminate from anybody's memory that they all saw the intelligence and they all knew what was going on in Iraq with Saddam and weapons of mass destruction. They're trying to get rid of any of that from as many memories as possible and transfer this whole thing to Bush. It's his war. Even though they've been saying it's Bush's war for years, they want to try to effect this in a political sense as best they can.
The fact is, the money has to get there. We have to get the funding to the troops, now.
Support the troops!