Posts Tagged ‘veto’
Last year Kentucky elected a new governor to replace the one we had. The one we had had been accused of inappropriate hiring practices. That never was resolved since the person making the charges decided to drop the charges so he could run for governor, and lose. So, Kentucky ( not me ) elected a [...]
Tags: budget, constitution, democrat, donation, Ethics, governor, impeach, kentucky, lawyer, steve beshear, veto
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Here’s the news: House Democrats on Tuesday failed to overturn President Bush’s veto of a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects. Good. First of all, I don’t like the idea of locally politically motivated people determining national defense issues. War is not a [...]
Tags: pork, veto, waterboarding
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House Democrats pushed through a $50 billion Iraq war bill that would require President George W. Bush to start bringing troops home in coming weeks with a goal of ending combat by December 2008. Now, this is where it gets really silly. Bush was already bringing troops home. Confused yet? Let Nancy clarify it for [...]
Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, constitution, defense-appropriations, harry reid, Legislative Process, nancy pelosi, president, Shock and Awe, troop-reduction, veto
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The Democrats haven’t even officially taken over the government yet, but they are already tossing out anything Republican as fast as they can. Along with that, I guess we can totally dismiss Bush’s "conservative compassionism": Its not just committees our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously, Mr. Rangel said in an interview. [...]
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A lot of people are reading things into this week’s elections. Some people claimed these elections are nothing but a national referendum on Bush and/or the Republicans. As such, I posted my “anticipated results” from the elections a few days ago. I’m still sticking with those “predictions” post-election. Now, here’s what happens when “national” expectations [...]
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