Your focused on Bush only. Republicans know that the next
president will be
a democrat. Do they want to give him the power? Also, MOST
of congress is
feeding at the till and none of them want to give the
president the ability
to stop them no matter what the party. Your so focused on
republicans, bush
and neo-cons that you forgot the single driving factor in
politicians of any
stripe; greed.
As for republicans 'controlling' congress, again, you
don't know how it
works. There are various committees that have to be manned
for each bill,
each undertaking of the government, etc. No single party can
do it alone by
the nature of the system. ALL of them have to work together
on committee to
get stuff done and when it comes right down to it, each
congressman has a
priority in mind and Bush is NOT the top item on it. It goes
something like:
1. Self
2. Self
3. State
4. Self
5. Party
6. Self
7. President
Again, it's not a single party in control monolith.
BTW, not all republican's vote the way Bush or the party
wants. That's why
there's a party whip (mmmmm, party whip.)
>> Dino wrote:
>> Untrue. Look it up and you'll see Presidents in
the past wanting it and
>> it
>
> So, to boil it down, your 2 major points are:
>
> 1.) Bush wants a line item veto but just can't get it.
>
> Name a single time he's even asked Congress to
consider it. Name a
> single time he's ever brought it up as an initiative.
Even if we
> assume that you're right, he wants it, then that means
that
> Republicans, as a party, don't. Since if they did
it'd be law.
>
> 2.) Congress is not made up solely of Republicans.
>
> Agree. But THEY CONTROL CONGRESS. Name a Republican
that's put forth
> a line item veto in any bill. Now name the Republicans
that supported
> it.
>
> Dude: Republicans DON'T WANT A LINE ITEM VETO. What
the Dems want are
> irrelevant since they don't control congress or the
presidency.
>
>
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