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Indefensible.

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by hockeybeat, Oct 5, 2007.

  1. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    If more than half of the Republicans in the Senate seem to think it's ok, and Orrin Hatch, not exactly kin with Ted Kennedy, blasts Bush for being misinformed and off his fucking rocker for vetoing the bill, chances are this dipshit president just fucked up again. But what does he care? If the poor just didn't get sick the world would be a better place.
     
  2. Yes, another gentleman who thinks 50K Americans, hundreds of thousands of Asians, more bombs than were dropped on WWII, wasn't enough.
    And, while I have no brief for a lot of what LBJ did. This speech alone, and the laws that followed from it...

    http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/johnson.htm

    ..puts him on several dozen levels higher than the one on which the incumbent currently squats, playing with his toes.
     
  3. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    Because Bush has been a model leader of smaller government and tight spending.

    He spends like a drunken sailor. He just doesn't want to spend money on health care for poor children.

    Those are the facts, and they are not in question. Please at least adjust your talking points.
     
  4. wickedwritah

    wickedwritah Guest

    So if half the GOP thinks it's OK, they'll override the veto, right?
     
  5. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    The Senate has enough votes to override the veto. The House is where it gets tricky. But I guess they didn't lose enough seats last year, at least in their minds.
     
  6. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    The Senate should have 69 votes to override, as Biden and Obama both missed the original vote which went 67-29.

    The House is a mess, but I hope any fricking Congressman who votes against gets multiple TV ads about that vote run in his or her district when they run for reelection.
     
  7. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    He doesn't give a rat's ass. He's invulnerable, other than to impeachment, for which the current congress doesn't have the nerve. Can't be touched. So he's on a free roll.

    Makes you feel confident about quality of life, doesn't it?
     
  8. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Bush/GOP: War, good; affordable health care for little children so mommys and daddys don't go bankrupt, bad.
     
  9. Dangerous_K

    Dangerous_K Active Member

    Wow, 3-for-3. Looks like LBJ and W have quite a bit in common. Of course, I don't think LBJ ever uttered the phrase BRING 'EM ON in reference to the VC guerrillas.
     
  10. pallister

    pallister Guest

    Too bad the rest of you couldn't be like HB and have words fail you.

    BTW, given that being re-elected is more important than any bill or issue, I'm guessing the inevitable "Republicans hate children and want them to die" ads will lead to an eventual override of the veto.
     
  11. Yes, because opposition to this veto must needs be unprincipled.
    Yeesh.
     
  12. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    OK, I'm listening. Defend the veto.
     
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