Bush vetoes health and education bill

[Bleacher Creature]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday vetoed a spending measure for health and education programs prized by congressional Democrats. He also signed a big increase in the Pentagon's non-war budget.

The president's action was announced on Air Force One as Bush flew to Indiana for a speech expected to criticize the Democratic-led Congress on its budget priorities.

More than any other spending bill, the $606 billion education and health measure defines the differences between Bush and majority Democrats. The House fell three votes short of winning a veto-proof margin as it sent the measure to Bush.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_7

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Total scumbag. Does anything else need to be said?

[rodeodance]

1. hey DEMS-get 3 more votes and resubmit same bill!!!

[tritsofme]

14. Support for bills tends to decrease during override attempts

As the WH pressures members of its own party to fall in line.

[rodeodance]

2. Bush has sought to cut the labor, health and education measure below the prior year level.

Since winning re-election, Bush has sought to cut the labor, health and education measure below the prior year level. But lawmakers have rejected the cuts. The budget that Bush presented in February sought almost $4 billion in cuts to this year's bill.

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3. The $471 billion defense budget gives the Pentagon a 9 percent, $40 billion budget increase.

Since winning re-election, Bush has sought to cut the labor, health and education measure below the prior year level. But lawmakers have rejected the cuts. The budget that Bush presented in February sought almost $4 billion in cuts to this year's bill.

Democrats responded by adding $10 billion to Bush's request for the 2008 bill. Democrats say spending increases for domestic programs are small compared with Bush's pending war request totaling almost $200 billion.

The $471 billion defense budget gives the Pentagon a 9 percent, $40 billion budget increase. The measure only funds core department operations, omitting Bush's $196 billion request for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, except for an almost $12 billion infusion for new troop vehicles that are resistant to roadside bombs.

Much of the increase in the defense bill is devoted to procuring new and expensive weapons systems, including $6.3 billion for the next-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, $2.8 billion for the Navy's DD(X) destroyer and $3.1 billion for the new Virginia-class attack submarine.

Huge procurement costs are driving the Pentagon budget ever upward. Once war costs are added in, the total defense budget will be significantly higher than during the typical Cold War year, even after adjusting for inflation.

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4. new AP headline: Bush pushes budget fight with Democrats

Bush pushes budget fight with Democrats

By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
12 minutes ago



NEW ALBANY, Ind. - President Bush, escalating his budget battle with Congress, on Tuesday vetoed a spending measure for health and education programs prized by congressional Democrats.




He also signed a big increase in the Pentagon's non-war budget although the White House complained it contained "some unnecessary spending."

The president's action was announced on Air Force One as Bush flew to New Albany, Ind., on the Ohio River across from Louisville, Ky., for a speech criticizing the Democratic-led Congress on its budget priorities.

In excerpts of his remarks released in advance by the White House, Bush hammered Democrats for what he called a tax-and-spend philosophy:

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5. "Some of them claim this is not really much of a difference and the scary part is that they seem to

.....In excerpts of his remarks released in advance by the White House, Bush hammered Democrats for what he called a tax-and-spend philosophy:

"The Congress now sitting in Washington holds this philosophy," Bush said. "Their majority was elected on a pledge of fiscal responsibility, but so far it is acting like a teenager with a new credit card.

"This year alone, leaders in Congress are proposing to spend $22 billion more than my budget provides," the president said. "Some of them claim this is not really much of a difference and the scary part is that they seem to mean it."

[Dr.Phool]

10. Take this asshole's credit card away from him!

Give him fucking nothing!

You take away a teenagers allowance to punish him. You ground him. Sell Air Force One for scrap.

[Bleacher Creature]

6. Uh oh, someone at AP is getting yelled at as we speak.

Forget the fact that the first headline was 100% accurate and completely objective -- we can't have anything that puts the Boy King in a bad light, can we?

[allisonthegreat]

8. lol n/t

[Demit]

7. What else needs to be said is that AP should emphasize that it is a bipartisan bill, not that it is

'prized by congressional Democrats.' Fifty Republicans voted for the bill, as AP notes further down in its piece. Yet before they get to that little fact they present the situation, in three different ways, as a standoff between Bush and Democrats alone. It's really dishonest.

[rodeodance]

9. Bush vetoes labor bill

Source: afp



Bush vetoes labor bill

24 minutes ago



NEW ALBANY, Indiana (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Tuesday issued the sixth veto of his presidency by rejecting a labor, health, and human services bill, but signed defense spending legislation, the White House said.




Bush vetoed the $600 billion labor, health and human services bill because it was about $10 billion more than what Bush had requested, and had more than 2,000 earmarks, or special-interest funds, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters aboard Air Force One.

"We call on Congress to take out the pork and reduce the overall spending levels and return it to the president," she said.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/pl_nm/bush_congress_dc

[dubyaD40web]

11. Idiot boy

So let me get this straight, it's not okay for Democrats to "tax-and-spend?" But it's okay for him and the Repukes to borrow-and-spend? From, oh lets say, China!

What a god-damnned hypocrite!!! Calling "us" a teenager with a new credit card!? Sorry jackass, that's you when you had the Republican Congressional majority for 6 years!

Why do you hate America, Mr. Bush? It's okay to spend billions, if not trillions, in Iraq but not here at home? We have an entire region wiped out by a hurricane, another region destroyed by wildfires, bridges collapsing everywhere, low water supplies in the South-East, etc. Why won't you spend money here? Oh wait, there's not as much oil there as there is in Iraq, right? You just want your glorious photo-op with a bullhorn like 9/11.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. PREZ SHIT-FOR-BRAINS IS TRUE PORNOGRAPHY...NO SOCIALLY REDEEMING VALUE AT ALL.

[classysassy]

13. Roll over ,Shrubs lil puppies

When will Nancy and her gang of cowards close the purse strings and impeach that loon?

[Orsino]

15. Can't this impotent Congress bring him a sufficiently evil bill to sign? n/t

[file83]

16. Of course he does.