McClatchy: Bush veto strategy threatens Republicans

[babylonsister]

Bush veto strategy threatens Republicans
By Steven Thomma and Tony Pugh | McClatchy Newspapers

* Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2007


WASHINGTON — President Bush is putting his fellow Republicans on a collision course with the American people, forcing them to choose between guns and butter.

In this newest example of a historic clash over priorities, Bush is asking Congress for $190 billion to keep financing the unpopular war in Iraq for another year and vowing to veto as early as Wednesday a bipartisan plan to spend an additional $35 billion over five years on health insurance for children.

Polls suggest that Bush's budget battle could be a loser for his party. Two new polls — one nonpartisan and one sponsored by a labor union — showed that solid U.S. majorities want to cut the financing for the war and increase spending on children's health insurance.

Democrats and allied interest groups know it. They're launching ad campaigns to increase pressure on Republican lawmakers in vulnerable seats to support the increased spending — or face great risk in next year's elections.

"This is a fight that Democrats ought to welcome, that Republicans ought to fear," Democratic pollster Geoff Garin said.

"The battle over spending priorities is the most important fight since the showdown over privatizing Social Security," said Gerald McEntee, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. "I don't think we need to remind Bush who won that battle."

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[deacon]

1. AWOL on children's health care. And, so is congress if they can't override the veto.

[grytpype]

2. Bush the Idiot just can't back down from a fight.

Even a fight he can't win.

Bush's legacies:

1. Destruction of the US Army
2. Destruction of the dollar
3. Destruction of the GOP

[Olney Blue]

4. Destruction of the Constitution.

[Gman]

5. Probably goes back to those days when

he used to disappear for days and go to Mexico to get drunk. Probably ended up in fights in Boy's Town and got the crap kicked out of him. BTW, the twins were in diapers back then and Laura didn't have a clue where he was. --> Read "Fortunate Son".

[City Lights]

3. Bring. It. On.

Bushdick already admitted they don't give a rat's ass about the Republicks. May Bushdick destroy the entire party!

[rodeodance]

6. and this article CORRECTS Boehner's LIES!!

...House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, for example, said the proposal was put together without input from Republicans.

That isn't true. Senior Republicans such as Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee and a fiscal conservative, and Orrin Hatch of Utah helped draft the bill, and 18 Republicans in the Senate and 45 in the House of Representatives voted for it.

Moreover, Grassley contests Bush's objections to the children's health insurance bill.

Pressure now mounts on Republicans who voted against the new spending but come from swing districts, where the idea of greater spending on health insurance for kids could be as popular with their constituents as it is nationally.

[radfringe]

7. unfortunately for the republics

they haven't realized their only chance of avoiding devestating losses in nov'08 is to rip their super-glued lips away from bush's butt

[Tyler Durden]

8. Hopefully, then they will bleed to death.

The Republicans have forgotten the lessons of the Whigs, the Know-Nothings, The Bullmoose Party, etcetera. Parties have a lifespan, like everything else.

Shit, they wouldn't even recognize the Republican Party of Lincoln.