Democrats To Widen Conflict With Bush

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Some on Both Sides See Plans as Risky
Even as their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq escalates, emboldened congressional Democrats are challenging the White House on a range of issues -- such as unionization of airport security workers and the loosening of presidential secrecy orders -- with even more dramatic showdowns coming soon.

For his part, Bush, who also finds himself under assault for the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the conduct of the Iraq war and alleged abuses in government surveillance by the FBI, is holding firm. Though he has vetoed only one piece of legislation since taking office, he has vowed to veto 16 bills that have passed either the House or Senate in the three months since Democrats took control of Congress.

Despite the threats, Democratic lawmakers expect to open new fronts against the president when they return from their spring recess, including politically risky efforts to quickly close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; reinstate legal rights for terrorism suspects; and rein in what Democrats see as unwarranted encroachments on privacy and civil liberties allowed by the USA Patriot Act.

"I suppose there's always a risk of going too far," said House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), "but the risk of not going is far greater."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/01/AR2007040100766.html?hpid=topnews

[TwilightGardener]

1. Democrats have looked down and re-discovered their balls. What

better time to start gearing up for Chimpeachment?

[TlalocW]

2. Unfortunately, in the Senate

When Lieberman rediscovered his, he saw that they had, "Property of Bush," stamped on them.

What a visual. I'm like a poet weaving gossamer imagery with my words.

TlalocW

[TwilightGardener]

4. LOL! I stand in awe of your gossamer imagery. But now I would

like to stop visualizing Joe's balls. Please.

[grasswire]

3. it's called BALANCE OF POWERS

It's called CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT

How can it be overreaching????!!

[AndyTiedye]

6. OverSIGHT. And Joe LiebeRepiglican Thought It Said OverLOOK

Perhaps some of his constituants from Connecticut could explain it to him.

[EVDebs]

5. "Conflict" to the M$M means asking questions...

Like why Operation Mockingbird still seems to be chirping even after Judith Miller et al have been disgraced. You can't keep good men and women down and the Dems are them good guys now. Yes, asking questions in a police state is dangerous, but as Hoyer surmises, it's better to ask them and see what happens.


BTW, has the press seen the YouTube video of itself called 'What's So Funny' ? Didn't think so. Still lookin' for those WMDs huh ?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

7. Good. Have hearings on any/everything. I guarantee a pattern of profiteering,...

,...and political power-mongering will be revealed.

GO! GO! GO! DEMOCRATS!!!!

Hold hearings every damn day!!!!

[Kolesar]

8. A ferocious pursuit against the worst of the Patriot Act will get us the Libertarian vote

So it is not like the Dems have to govern from the center. There is language we can use to take away some definite "conservative" voters.

[niallmac]

9. * is an igniter not a provider.

[beltanefauve]

10. Who was it that said,

"We've only been in the majority for six weeks, and every tree we bark up has a cat in it."?