CNN: Bush, Democrats spar on spending, taxes

[Eugene]

Bush, Democrats spar on spending, taxes
POSTED: 2:37 p.m. EST, January 3, 2007

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush and Democratic leaders in Congress traded jabs
over the budget Wednesday in what could be an indication of partisan fights to come.

In a White House statement and Wall Street Journal opinion piece a day before the
Democrat-controlled Congress is seated, the president asked lawmakers to give the
White House line-item veto power to control spending.

As he prepares to deal with a Democratically-controlled Congress for the first time,
Bush is also asking lawmakers to extend tax cuts.

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"I know people don't like to pay taxes, but the fact of the matter is is that this
administration has produced a record deficit that is really threatening in long
measure our ability to make the kind of investments we need to keep America safe,"
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, said in a Fox News interview.

"We hope that when the president says compromise, it means more than 'do it my way,'
which is what he's meant in the past," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, said in a
statement.

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Full article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/03/bush/index.html

[AzDar]

1. Line item-veto for the Chimp? Hell NO! n/t

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. And not a peep about the performance of his Bush's party

with regard to budget control, or even their ability to PASS a budget.

Unbelievable!

[stray cat]

3. Lets give the idiot lame duck line-item veto power- Right!