House overrides farm bill veto...oh wait

House, as expected, voted to override Bush's farm-bill veto. But it doesn't count because the bill they sent him omitted an entire section. They'll now have to repass it, and he'll have to veto it again, and they'll have to override it again.

According to the AP:

Seriously? Parchment? Hopefully everyone remembers their powdered wigs when they turn up tomorrow.

 

They still use parchment paper for bills, deskslave. A friend of mine who works for a midwestern governor clued in me on that when I asked her today about the snafu.

Nice job Congress of shooting yourselves in the foot en route to overriding a veto.

 

Oh, I figured they did. I just found it ridiculously anachronistic. And probably unnecessarily expensive, for that matter.

 

With the price of everything these days, I'm not surprised that many of them hasn't converted to using recycled paper. My bosses finally caved in and brought in recycle bins and purchased boxes of affordable recycles.

My friend thinks her boss (the Gov) needs to take his head out of Hillary's ass and get with the program and ditch parchment paper.

 

I mean, I can understand not wanting to print the things on low-grade, thin, crappy paper. But parchment seems to swing way too far to the other side. Maybe print the final version on, I dunno, that resume paper they sell at Kinko's, but for the copies that just get handed out, use recycled stuff.

 

jesus christ. are you really condoning laying off 90 percent of all parchment paper makers? think of the impact that'd have on our economy.

maybe you should think a little harder before asking for something, because you just might receive it.

 

Can't Bush just do one of his signing statements to add the parts they wanted and then veto the sumbitch anyway?

 

Well, it'll give them a little less time to pass the Frank Sinatra Day bill.

 

Congress fucked up and sent him the wrong bill. Let them fix it.

 

Fucking Democrats.

 

When the GOP held Congress, Bush could do signing statements to his heart's content and thus avoid having to veto anything. He could interpret the law to his liking and Congress be damned. He was King Fredo.

Well, that all changed two years ago.

As Bush himself said in 2006 vis-a-vis the Fisa law ... "It's a different world."

Damn skippy.

 

Disclosure: T_P is the parliamentarian for Federated Parchmen of America Local 6969 ...