Did congress really think the President would sign the bill with all the extra things on it?

Question

*the bill that sets a deadline to bring back the troops that is*...they have things about peanut storage for example... like $74 million dollars to do that!! i mean come on...if there were things on there that were actually a good thing, perhaps to help the troops, then he might have thought about it.

Answer 1

There is plenty of blame to go around.

First off, there was never any reason to create such a pathetic collection of items and package them in a single bill. This tactic must end, for both parties.

Secondly, if President Bush had really attempted to discuss this situation with the key members of the House and Senate, a deal could have been arrived at without the zero-sum mindset that reactionaries tend to embrace in a death grip.

Pork spending is just wrong, no matter who sponsors the bill. Tacking the pork to a bill that could harm our forces in a war zone is unforgivable.

And as far as a time table for removing the troops, that will have to happen at some point. Like it or not, we're not going to remain in Iraq as long as some extremists wish.

Answer 2

Most, if not all, bills which go through Congress for a presidential signature contain pork and earmarks.

For instance, did you know that the No Child Left Behind Act contains an earmark which states that a public school can and will have all federal funding revoked if it does not provide the names, addresses, and phone numbers of every single student in the school to all branches of military recruiters?

This is not the first bill with "extra" things on it, and said extras have nothing to do with the veto. The lack of a signature is simply Bush's refusal to sign ANY bill which involves a deadline for the removal of troops.

Answer 3

The funniest thing is how the Dems are trying to say he doesn't care about our troops or Walter Reed because he is gonig to veto the $22 million they have allocated for the clean up of the hospital. What they won't tell you is that same money is pork spending in a bill he has said he will veto from day one. To me this cements that the Dems DO NOT like our troops. Why else would they cause the hold up of money for Walter Reed? They know for a fact he will not sign this bill so they are purposely delaying the attention our service members need to serve their political function. Me and my brethren are not pawns.

I now know why I had my tooth knocked out 3 years ago by a detainee and the detainee had immediate medical attention and I have still not received a replacement tooth or any dental work.

EDIT: For Bush-Scares-Me

Are you really that ignorant? Without those add-ons that your DEMOCRATS ADDED there is no majority for the bill. Those are the sell out Republicans that voted for the bill to get their personal agenda accomplished. Democrats will gladly waste BILLIONS to kill our troops.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Hmmm....peanut storage for YOUR future consumption
or from aid for Great Plains farmers to help for children lacking health insurance and better levees in New Orleans.

VS REPUBLICAN PORK ADD ONS...
(Hey Republicans....tell me HOW these pork add ons
helped the troops)

NASA spends about $18 billion a year and doesn't really do anything. Is your life really any better because there is an international space station? NASA is a pork barrel project that only benefits Houston and Cape Canaveral.
OR
Representative Tom Davis (R-VA) is requesting the House of Representatives to consider an amendment (H.R. 3496, as revised) to the Deep Water Energy Resources Act (H.R. 4761) that would divert $1.5 billion of federal revenues earned through offshore drilling to subsidize the deeply troubled Metro transit system serving the nation's capital and his congressional district. If enacted, this earmark would be one of the largest ever passed seven times larger than STEVENS-R Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere" and twice as large as LOTTS-R Mississippi's "Train to Nowhere."
The Department of Defense, already infamous for spending $640 for a toilet seat, once again finds itself under intense scrutiny, only this time because it couldn't account for more than a TRILLION dollars in financial transactions, not to mention dozens of tanks, missiles and planes.
Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn., of the House Committee on Government Reform said: "I've always considered myself to be a pro-military type person, but that doesn't mean I just want to sit back and watch the Pentagon waste billions and billions of dollars."

It is so LAUGHABLE that Bush & the Republicans now CRY....but its the taxpayers money....hypocrites, indeed!!!

Answer 6

Roughly 5% of the bill was unrelated to the military. And all that 5% went to help Americans, to fund education, to help with disaster relief, and to keep farmes from going bankrupt.

Check every major funding bill for the past 20 years. Every one of them contained pork and special interest earmarks. Usually about 5%. Often more. This one is nothing special.

Bush is not vetoing the bill becuase of the extra subsidies and relief funds tacked on. Bush promised to veto the bill on principle, long before any of these additions.

He's vetoing the bill because he doesn't like Congress telling him what to do, or exercising their constitutional power.

Answer 7

They know that, it is called moving the pea. They really don't want a deadline. They know what that would do to Iraq. They are trying to generate support from all the libbies out there in coming elections

Answer 8

He had no problem signing bills the Republican controlled Congress passed that contained billions of dollars in earmarks,so that's a facetious argument.

Answer 9

Ok I am writing this real slow cause I am guessing you can't read very fast...."I WILL VETO ANY BILL THAT HAS A TIMELINE FOR WITHDRAWAL"....I doesn't matter what pork they put into it...judging from recent polls I think the American people have lost their ability to see something through to its completion.

Answer 10

He always does. Especially when the pork feeds things like haliburton and wealthy oil execs.