Eliot Spitzer, Mike Huckabee Say President Bush, Congress Need to End Stalemate Over Iraq

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

Eliot Spitzer, Mike Huckabee Say President Bush, Congress Need to End Stalemate Over Iraq

05-07-2007 5:57 PM
By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Monday said President Bush and Congress need to work together to end their stalemate over the direction to take in Iraq.

"At this point in time I would say to them, get into a room," Spitzer said at the annual meeting of The Associated Press. "It is an embarrassment before the nation, before the world, that we cannot pass a budget that funds our troops, that ensures their safety and their security, but the president should understand the public tolerance for this war has run its course."


New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, center, former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, right, and MediaNews Group Inc. Chief Executive W. Dean Singleton get together during the luncheon of the Associated Press Annual Meeting, in New York Monday May 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, said the nation's founding fathers deliberately built into the Constitution tension between the branches of government, and both sides must find a way to work within those checks and balances.

"When we walk in having been elected, we have to accept that yes, we were elected but so were these other guys," Huckabee said.

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[The Count]

1. Ain't it grand that Spitzer endorses GOP TP - a budget was passed you tool!

[krkaufman]

2. Shut up, Eliot, when you don't have a clue what you're talking about. n/t

[Renew Deal]

3. What exactly did Spitzer say wrong?

Did I miss something?

[polmaven]

4. The words he used were...

It's an embarrassment.....that we "cannot pass a budget that funds our troops".

Congress DID ...pass...a budget the funds the troops. The only embarrassment before the country and before the world is the (p)resident ...withholding... from the troops the money Congress allocated