Since the 2004 election, I’ve wondered if the fellow they keep telling me is the president is just a pod or a stand-in. He’s been willing to let law enforcement officers sit in prison for stopping criminals and allowed criminals to stream across our borders. He’s signed pork-laden budgets, and acts like he’s never heard of a veto. He’s done nearly everything the Democrats want him to do, and some things they wouldn’t have even thought of all by themselves.
Finally, the guy I voted for twice has shown his face, reports Joseph Curls of the Washington Times;
“The bill includes $74 million for peanut storage, $25 million for spinach growers,” he said to laughter. “There’s $6.4 million for the House of Representatives’ salaries and expense accounts. I don’t know what that is, but it is not related to the war and protecting the United States of America,” he said to more laughter and applause.
    The president urged lawmakers to deliver a bill he can sign.
    “Here’s the bottom line: The House and Senate bills have too much pork, too many conditions on our commanders, and an artificial timetable for withdrawal,” Mr. Bush said. “And I have made it clear for weeks, if either version comes to my desk, I’m going to veto it.
    “It is also clear from the strong opposition in both houses that my veto would be sustained. Yet Congress continues to pursue these bills, and as they do, the clock is ticking for our troops in the field,” he said.
Of course Blinky the Botox Queen has a snappy comeback in the Washington Post;
“Calm down with the threats. There is a new Congress in town,” Pelosi said at a Capitol Hill news conference. “We respect your constitutional role. We want you to respect ours.”
“Calm down with the threats”? What kind of grade school playground language is that? Not to be outdown with childish language, Dingy Harry stepped up (in the WashTimes again);
“Why doesn’t he get real with what’s going on with the world?”
Get real? That’s the kind of pop culture drivel we like to hear from our Congressional leaders. So precise, so unassailable in it’s simplicity. (If you can’t tell, I’m being sarcastic here).
From the Examiner we get some more from Nancy Pelosi;
“This war without end has gone on far too long and we’re here to end it.”
Who the hell is she kidding. They cobbled together a piece of shit, weak-kneed rant about unrealistic and arbitrary time schedules so complicated that the Democrat leadership (they call that leadership) doesn’t even understand themselves, threw in tens of billions of dollars in useless vote-buying pork, patted them-stupid-selves on the back while the nasty old bags in garish pink boas cried their alligator tears for the cameras.
The only thing the Democrats did the other day was insure that the Arab world knows that we don’t have the testicular fortitude to continue this war against their Dark Ages culture. And they’re proud of that? They think that’s why they won their “mandate” from the American voters? Do they think that Americans are as cowardly, ill-informed and ill-mannered as Democrats?
In the Examiner, Herry Reid admits that the whole thing is an exercise in absolving the Democrats of their vote in 2003 for the war in Iraq;
Reid said the ball was now in the president’s court.
“The Senate and the House have held together and done what we’ve done,” he told reporters. “It’s now in his corner to do what he wants to do.”
Kinda sounds like some Biblical reference I remember of someone washing their hands of something.
But the President threw the ball right back at them;
“If Congress fails to pass a bill to fund our troops on the front lines, the American people will know who to hold responsible.”
As long as you keep waving that veto pen around, Mr. President, we’ll hold the Democrats responsible.