alt.politics.gw-bush

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:01:36 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )"
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>David Johnston wrote:
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>> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:35:07 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )"
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>> >David Johnston wrote:
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>> >> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:16:57 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )"
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>> >> >David Johnston wrote:
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>> >> >> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:24:29 -0700, "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )"
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>> >> >> >> >>The discussion we were having. Is voting for or allowing "earmarks" not
>> >> >> >> >>putting the country first? Earmarks are specific legislation that
>> >> >> >> >>benefit local districts and are therefore usually championed by the
>> >> >> >> >>legislators from the districts getting the benefit. The question, if you
>> >> >> >> >>can answer it, is is it automatically working against the country's
>> >> >> >> >>interests to support any earmarks?
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>> >> >> >> >"Any" no. But the subject was "All".
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>> >> >> >> Oh, and Bush seemed to have no problem "shutting down the government"
>> >> >> >> when the alternative was to have any kind of vague suggest that the
>> >> >> >> United States should leave Iraq some day.
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>> >> >> >Did he shut down the government?
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>> >> >> He vetoed the budget.
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>> >> Excuse me, I meant the war funding.
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>> >I think there isn't a "budget" to veto but a serious of funding
>> >resolutions.
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>> >> >If he did that, what's the complaint about?
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>> >> Geez, try to keep track. The complaint is about how he only vetos
>> >> Democrat bill but never Republican ones. That is what makes people
>> >> accuse him of putting party over country.
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>> >Since Democrats run the show in both chambers now, how are any of the
>> >bills not "Democrat"?
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>> Is that question to mean something?
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>I'm trying to figure out how Bush is supposed to show he's willing to
>take on his party.

Well he could have vetoed, something, anything, while the Republicans
were still in the majority.