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Bush AGAIN Vetos Childrens Healthcare

Posted by nytexan

Bush being the good Christian that he espouses, just gave sick and needy children in an early Christmas present ….a veto. What a piece of crap we have for a president. We actually need to stop associating the word president with Bush, for he is the anti-president. The little weasel that Bush is waited until [...]

GOP Continues to Destroy America So Bush Can Be Relevant

Posted by nytexan

As the year draws to a close, the GOP in both the House and the Senate stubbornly stand by Bush causing David Obey to scrap the spending bill. Bush and the Pentagon continually ask for more money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while domestic projects and infrastructure continue to collapse and get vetoed. [...]

H.R. 3221: Energy Bill Passes House But Not Senate

Posted by bosskitty

  Energy Bill Passed by House
The House yesterday brushed aside a new White House veto threat and handily approved a comprehensive energy bill that would raise automobile fuel-efficiency standards for the first time in 32 years and require increased use of renewable energy sources to generate electricity. The House yesterday brushed aside a new [...]

The GOP’s VA And HHS Appropriations Stalling

Posted by nytexan

We are all aware that the GOP has done more to stall, hold up and filibuster every bill in both chambers of Congress. Hence, this tactic, which is continually overlooked but the media, gives most Americans the clear impression that Congress is doing nothing. So let’s step back and take a look at the most [...]

Bush Vetoes Bill For Hurricane Katrina Repairs

Posted by nytexan

Another week another veto; Bush the most fiscally irresponsible president in our history continues to veto bills that would help Americans. In his lasted move Bush has vetoed a water project bill that would have repaired the hurricane damaged areas of the Gulf Coast, especially in the Katrina area. The bill would also restore wetlands [...]

Bush: I veto bills to ‘ensure that I am relevant.’

Posted by nytexan

Today in his press conference, President Bush attempted to justify his recent veto of an SCHIP expansion by explaining that he needs to issue vetoes in order to prove to people that he’s still the Decider:
That’s why the president has a veto. Sometimes the legislative branch wants to go on without the president, pass pieces [...]

Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up:Bush SCHIP Veto

Posted by nytexan

President Bush today vetoed an important and widely supported bi-partisan expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) (H.R. 976).
WhosPlayin takes a look at what the blogs of the Texas Progressive Alliance are saying about this terrible move:
Adam at Three Wise Men writes: Bush uses veto pen to strike health care for kids
Blue 19th [...]

Bush Vetos Stem Cell

Posted by nytexan

Well what a surprise. Science versus ideology guess who wins. Bush continues to ignore science and the advancement of a possible cure for serious diseases. Bush the president who doesn’t support or believe in valid science has his own plan. I sure it will be as successful as his Iraq plan.
CNN 
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pushing back [...]

Bush To Veto Homeland Security Bill

Posted by nytexan

CRAWFORD, Texas — President Bush warned Congress on Saturday that he will use his veto power to stop runaway government spending.
“The American people do not want to return to the days of tax-and-spend policies,” Bush said in his radio address.
Interesting statement by Bush. Let’s look at one of the many overpriced Bills past by the [...]

Antiwar Groups Press Democrats to Vote Against Iraq Bill

Posted by bosskitty

Thank you for the article:  By Shailagh Murray , Washington Post Staff Writer, 
Thursday, May 24, 2007; Page A06
AntiWar … groups flooded congressional offices with phone calls and e-mails and threatened long-term political reprisals if Democrats decide to support the legislation when it comes before the House and the Senate, where voting is expected [...]

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