Reply By: danielost Posted: Sunday, November 04, 2007
I see so when you said that bush should have vetoed when the gop was spending. that was just a lie from you then

WHY should the Congress when controlled by the GOP be able to approve the spending levels but when the democrats control the Congress Bush vetoes the spending? Give me a good reason for that. The truth is Bush is trying to impose his will ABOVE Congress despite the fact that the Constitution gives that power to Congress NOT THE PRESIDENT!
When the GOP controlled Congress they approved what the President wanted and so Congress had allowed Bush to get his way. He is just like a dictator!

non of this makes any sense.


look here the congress is not supposed to be above the president any more than the president is supposed to be above the congress. all bills go through congress if voted for then it goes to the president to either sign or veto. again the number of bills that congress says yes to then goes to the president to either sign or veto is ALL. if the president vetos it then congress can over ride it. just because the president vetoed something that you wanted him to sign does not make him a dictator. the president is doing his job. the democrats are not they are trying to campaign instead of pass laws and pay bills.

Last I checked, the Presidential veto was very much Constitutional, regardless of the nature of the bill. The Congress has a remedy available if it feels strongly that a veto was inappropriate. Maybe some remedial education is in order for you, Gene, assuming your repeated admonitions that our Constitution be adhered to literally is something other than posturing (something I strongly doubt). Your irrational emotionality gets the best of you every time.

All that does not change the fact it is Congress that has the power of the budget. It is time that Congress takes control.

The Congress has the power of the budget, provided they can pass one & have it signed into law by the President, according to the dictates of the Constitution. If a budget bill is vetoed, the Congress has a remedy.

You are quite right that it is Congress's job to take control. Let's see them do it. Quit blaming Bush for Congress's actions or inactions. This is the way our system works. If you don't like it, start a petition for a Constitutional amendment & see how far you can get.

Reply By: Daiwa Posted: Sunday, November 04, 2007
The Congress has the power of the budget, provided they can pass one & have it signed into law by the President, according to the dictates of the Constitution. If a budget bill is vetoed, the Congress has a remedy.

You are quite right that it is Congress's job to take control. Let's see them do it. Quit blaming Bush for Congress's actions or inactions. This is the way our system works. If you don't like it, start a petition for a Constitutional amendment & see how far you can get.


Bush is acting not as the majority of Congress or the American People want. That is the issue. Bush is acting like a Dictator-- He was elected to serve as President of ALL of us not to just try and force whet HE wants.

I hope the voters look at why nothing is getting done in Congress. It is the refusal of the GOP members to act and more interested in supporting Bush who is clearly out of touch with the vast majority of Americans. The fix is to vote those members of Congress out of office who refuse to vote as the majority want and support a President that is totally out of touch with the majority of Voters. The democrats should continue passing measures that benefit the middle income and poor and force the GOP to side with Bush and the wealthy. There are a lot more poor and middle income voter’s then wealthy voters. When I see low and middle income people supporting Bush and his policies I know they have no idea just how his policies are harming their interests. The clearest statement I have heard is that Bush and the GOP act of the Middle Class are invisible. I think that can also be said for the low income Americans as well. Tax cuts, jobs, help for higher education and health care are all examples where the Bush/GOP policies simply ignore the needs and wants of the low and middle income families. There may be some people in these categories who support Bush because of abortion or gay marriage but if they support his social and economic policies they do not know what they are doing and are causing great harm for themselves.

Should I save that quote gene?  Because if a democrat like Hillary is elected, she is going to force more social programs on America. 

For you to sit there and call Bush a dictator shows how far out of reality you are.  Why don't you take a trip to Cuba gene, and tell me again how Bush is a dictator.

 

His 'job' is to uphold the Constitution as he determines appropriate, along with his other designated responsibilities, not to 'do what the people want' - elections are how we handle that issue.

I have to laugh at you again Gene. You sit there and tell us that one country or group is "more" dangerous than others when we have just seen a kid terrorize an entire area of a state armed only with a few matches.

News Flash!!! Any group or nation who dedicates its resources to fight against the US is a danger to us. The weapon of choice is politically charged but actually irrelevant.

Should I save that quote gene? Because if a democrat like Hillary is elected, she is going to force more social programs on America.

The only way we will get more social programs is if BOTH congress and the president enact them.

This Blog is about the danger in Pakistan and the fact that Bush does not know what to do. We have most of our forces in Iraq where they should NEVER have been sent We need them in Afghanistan and if Bush had not sent the majority to Iraq, he would have been able to eliminate al-Qaeda who attacked us on 9/11! There is NOTHING that is working in the Moslem world. It is hard to believe how inept Bush and his Sec of State appear to be.

There you go again Gene, under some hallucination that the war against Islamist Terrorism is only in Afghanistan. We need to fight the enemy where they are, right now, they have moved most their forces to Iraq to engage us, why should we move away from them, in the name of "fighting against them"?

And you do?

Rrrriiiigght.

Because you have been in all the classififed intelligence briefings about this, right?