Overturned: House GOP And Democrats Join Against Bush Veto

New York Times:

A majority of House Republicans joined Democrats this evening in escalating a confrontation with President Bush over federal spending as the House overrode Mr. Bush's veto of a popular water projects measure.

House Democrats also readied a $215 billion bill to pay for health, education, labor and veterans programs despite a veto threat.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[loki]

12:43 AM on 11/08/2007

Ok, Im going to make a prediction here. I predict that it wont make it through the senate.

[mellene]

06:49 PM on 11/07/2007

I wish I could say that this will be the start of a new approach but unfortunately the Republicans are "evil-doers" and out for their own period.

[FrankFurter]

03:31 PM on 11/07/2007

Spectoring will occur minutes before the vote. Graham will follow Spector's retreat while mumbling some crap about " being good for the country" blah blah blah.

These people are so corrupt, we haven't a chance in hell of ever having a representative democracy again.

It was a nice dream.

Money rules, the rest are fools.

[ChrisR]

02:06 PM on 11/07/2007

Bush on the Democratic spending bills coming up: "Considering how eager they are to spend your money, it’s shocking it’s taken so long to do so,” Mr. Bush told an audience of grocery goods manufacturers last week.
This from a man responsible for spending a trillion dollars on a bogus "war" while lowering taxes for his rich friends.
Shut up.

[Ramirez]

01:56 PM on 11/07/2007

FOILED AGAIN!!!!!
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Kucinich's Broadside At Cheney Is Foiled

By Elizabeth Williamson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 7, 2007; A19

On a day intended for moving long-overdue annual spending bills, the House instead spent a good chunk of yesterday wrangling over an entirely different endeavor: a motion to impeach Vice President Cheney.

For more than six months, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), a long-shot presidential candidate, has labored to bring to a vote his plan to send the vice president packing. Kucinich says Cheney lied to Americans in the run-up to the Iraq war, chiefly about evidence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

But yesterday, the antiwar liberal's seemingly quixotic effort drew unexpected support from Republicans, who saw a golden opportunity to engage Democrats in a debate on the issue.

Kucinich's rambling, 18-page resolution bristles with citations of Cheney's public comments justifying the war. "The best option to prevent an unnecessary war with Iran," he said, "is to impeach the Vice President, the lead cheerleader of the war" in Iraq.

"The Constitution has been under attack by this administration," Kucinich told an reporter during the vote, and his effort is "part of a growing movement" to defend it.

"This isn't about my campaign," he said. "This isn't a Democratic-Republican issue."

But it became a partisan issue yesterday once Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) moved to table Kucinich's resolution. Hoyer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have said they will not back such symbolic gestures, for fear of burnishing Congress's current do-nothing image.

During the subsequent vote, Republicans were far along toward helping kill the resolution when they began switching their "yes" votes to "no's," clearly hoping for a public debate that would have showcased the Democrats' most vocal lefties.

But in the end, Hoyer settled for sending the resolution to the Judiciary Committee. There it is destined for oblivion.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602000_pf.html

[ProfessorDuh]

12:28 PM on 11/07/2007

The GOP can override Bush to spend more money but not, of course, to protect the Constitution, stop American torture or end Bush's endless invasion and occupation. Only money ever really matters, right?

[FiddleDeeDee]

12:14 PM on 11/07/2007

Warning Will Robinson, Warning:

"By Siobhan Gorman | Sun reporter
November 7, 2007
WASHINGTON - President Bush quietly announced yesterday his plans to launch a program targeting terrorists and others who would seek to attack the United States via the Internet, according to lawmakers and budget documents.

Bush requested $154 million in preliminary funding for the initiative, which current and former government officials say is expected to become a seven-year, multibillion-dollar program to track threats in cyberspace on both government and private networks.

But lawmakers, who received briefings on the initiative only recently, continue to have many questions, and some remain concerned, about whether the program has adequate privacy protections."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.infocus07nov07,0,6326102.story

[MalloMel]

11:47 AM on 11/07/2007

I have a question. Does anyone know if Bush and his crew can be prosecuted for crimes committed while in office?

[Hastings]

11:40 AM on 11/07/2007

I just love this leftie website. A blog about a water bill that was overridden but not one word about how the Dems ran for the hills when Kucinich introduced articals of impeachment. I guess the tabloid headline writers for this website are on strike.

[speakingtruth2power]

11:21 AM on 11/07/2007

Bush's once iron fisted control of his party is slipping away and the trolls want to talk about Breck Girl and Martian Boy?

The elections are a year away and over three quarters of America now intend to vote against Bush and his GOP enablers. The only way the individual GOP politicians to avoid this punishment is to declare their independence and vote against BushCo, repeatedly.

The puppet Decider's empire is crumbling and not even Darth's threats can keep the sheeple in line. It is much like a sheep dog trying to herd the flock during a range fire, the fire will scatter the flock. Claiming that Bush isn't running next year is self delusional.

[IntelligentDesign]

11:00 AM on 11/07/2007

Six years, one million lives and one trillion dollars too late.

[JackSlappyNotYourPappy]

11:00 AM on 11/07/2007

.

*** BREAKING NEWS - BREAKING NEWS ***

Repugs are continuing to sponsor members of our military for their needless sacrifice in Iraq!
.

[LaFeminazi]

11:00 AM on 11/07/2007

Maybe Dennis should have sung this.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xNqqJnVz4nE

[Felicty]

10:50 AM on 11/07/2007

How exquisite!

The Repubs must have had an extra testicle laying around to loan to the Dems.

That's what is commonly referred to these days as "working together."

[LaFeminazi]

10:46 AM on 11/07/2007

When Bush retires from the ROTW

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xgZxCLVDlPs

We'll be waiting