Hypocrite in Chief vetoes funds for troops

May 1st, 2007 · No Comments · Bush, Iraq, U.S. House of Representatives

Boy George Bush is pouting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Ma Pelosi and Dad Reid are telling him it is time for him to put away his toy soldiers and stop playing king. You remember until recently, Georgie’s old overseers believed in sparing the rod to spoil the child. Heck, they never even raised their voices, much less a hand, to discipline Georgie.

Unfortunately, we are not talking about just toy soldiers, though Boy George and his buddies seem to give them little more consideration than that. Sending them off to war without armor, without adequate numbers and “supporting” them with a corrupt supply line lining the pockets of war profiteers is the moral equivalent of blowing up toy soldiers with firecrackers.

Ma Pelosi and Dad Reid have gone beyond just scolding young Georgie. Whether they can hold up under his childish tanrtrums, ranting and acting out remains to be seen. After all, he’s never had a proper upbringing and his manners are atrocious.

What were his parents thinking?

Washington

Bush Vetoes Bill Tying Iraq Funds to Exit

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JEFF ZELENY

WASHINGTON, May 1 —
President Bush vetoed a $124 billion war spending bill on Tuesday,
setting up a second round in his long battle with Congressional
Democrats who are determined to use the financing measure to force the
White House to shift course in Iraq.

The veto was only the second of Mr. Bush’s presidency. In a
six-minute televised speech from the White House, the president called
the measure a “prescription for chaos and confusion,” and said, as he
has for weeks, that he could not sign it because it contained
timetables for troop withdrawal.

“Setting a deadline for withdrawal is setting a date for failure,
and that would be irresponsible,” Mr. Bush said. He said the measure
would “impose impossible conditions on our commanders in combat” by
forcing them to “take fighting directions from politicians 6,000 miles
away in Washington, D.C.”

The veto added new punctuation to a major war powers clash between
Democrats in Congress — buoyed what they regard as a mandate in last
November’s elections and seeking to force an end to the fighting in
Iraq — and a president working to defy what he regards as an incursion
on his authority as commander in chief.