OLD CHUCKLE-NUTS RIDES AGAIN

Bush wants a “clean” war-spending bill that he can sign. That means that he doesn’t want anything written in the bill of which he doesn’t personally approve. The Congress is to have no say in the matter nor do the American people.

Now Bush wants to meet with the leading Congressional leaders of each party, but he says that his position is non-negotiable. “His position hasn’t changed,” White House communications director Kevin Sullivan said Sunday. “But he’s hopeful that the discussion on Wednesday will be productive”.

So far, Bush has called Democrats irresponsible, promised to veto their bill and refused to negotiate.

Just who the hell does Bush think he is? King? Dictator? Has he ever heard of checks and balances?

I know that Bush doesn’t know the meaning of compromise or negotiation (there are a lot of words he doesn’t know the meaning of), but his antagonistic and combative attitude has no place in American politics.

“We are very, very serious about what the American people said in last November’s election,” said Senator Carl Levin Democrat from Michigan. “They want a change of course.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said “The American people know that the height of irresponsibility is to put this country at risk by mismanaging a war from day one.”

The Senate bill as it now stands would approve a $96 billion war-spending bill, most of which would be used for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and would set a timetable for troop withdrawal to begin within 120 days. All troops would be out of the two wars by March 31, 2008.

The only problem I have with this bill is that the troops should have been out of Iraq and Afghanistan, like yesterday.