For the majority of his reign as President, George W. Bush has had a complicit Congress, willing to blindly pass his legislative agenda. Despite all the bad years in this administration, 2007 might be the worst for the inhabitants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
With the taking of Congress by the Democratic Party in 2006, the rubber stamp has been discarded, and oversight has returned to Washington. President Bush can no longer bank on his legislation sailing through, and has lost his ability to execute the war with no one questioning his actions. The Democrats have ended the President's ability to stumble through the war without resistance.
Without the rubber stamp, and with the popularity of Nixon amid Watergate, he's using the only desperate weapon he has left: the veto pen.
After his veto of the Iraq funding bill with timetables, Rep. Dave Obey (D-WI) has come up with a new plan, to incrementally fund the war instead of giving the President another blank check. There are rumors again that the President will veto anything that doesn't give him limitless authority to continue to botch a crucial and deadly conflict.
While the insurgency is unfortunately far from its last throes as Vice-President Cheney announced infamously, it is clear that we are hearing the death rattle of a desperate Bush Administration.
-Dylan Jambrek, Communications Director for the College Democrats of Wisconsin
With the taking of Congress by the Democratic Party in 2006, the rubber stamp has been discarded, and oversight has returned to Washington. President Bush can no longer bank on his legislation sailing through, and has lost his ability to execute the war with no one questioning his actions. The Democrats have ended the President's ability to stumble through the war without resistance.
Without the rubber stamp, and with the popularity of Nixon amid Watergate, he's using the only desperate weapon he has left: the veto pen.
After his veto of the Iraq funding bill with timetables, Rep. Dave Obey (D-WI) has come up with a new plan, to incrementally fund the war instead of giving the President another blank check. There are rumors again that the President will veto anything that doesn't give him limitless authority to continue to botch a crucial and deadly conflict.
While the insurgency is unfortunately far from its last throes as Vice-President Cheney announced infamously, it is clear that we are hearing the death rattle of a desperate Bush Administration.
-Dylan Jambrek, Communications Director for the College Democrats of Wisconsin
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