How To Lose An Election

[babylonsister]

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How To Lose An Election

Submitted by Bill Scher on July 23, 2007 - 4:21pm.

Last week, President Bush pledged to veto a bipartisan Senate bill that would cover three to four million more kids with health insurance.

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In turn, leading Republicans are begging Bush to sign the bill:

Grassley, Hatch and some other Republicans are urging the White House to back down from the veto threat and take the high road on a politically loaded issue. Some in the GOP, fearing political fallout in their re-election bids, have urged the administration to avoid making them take tough votes on children’s health proposals or on overriding a veto.

“To veto a bill that does so much, that implements provisions that have bipartisan support in the Senate, that has the support of many Republican governors, at this time in his presidential career is going to be a pretty big challenge,” said Lloyd Doggett of Texas, a House Ways and Means Democrat.

Bush has never cared about what the public wants, so there's little reason to expect he'll change now and sign compassionate legislation.

But the heightened concerned among some Washington Republicans, makes an unprecedented override of a Bush veto a real possibility.

[SoCalDem]

1. If our dems were smart, they would write SINGLE issue bills and MAKE

bush veto them one by one.. It would also help immensely to see all the repubes scrambling to explain why they voted against health care for kids or armored vehicles for the "troops" ..

By lumping so much into bills, they allow repubes the wiggle room they crave..

It would also allow for some clarity to see numbers attached to individual legislation, instead of some gigantic piece of legislation..

It's really just common sense. if Mom sends you to the hardware store to buy a hammer, why would she ask you to also buy some cole slaw at the ahrdware store , while you were there..

Like things with like things should be the rule..not the exception..

If they want "pork", then they should be forced to lump ALL the pork into a bill by itself, with a laundry list accounting so people can know who's wasting money and who's not.