The Bill Has Been Vetoed
May 1st, 2007
This afternoon Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid had a signing ceremony of their own on the Supplemental War spending bill. With great fanfare Speaker Pelosi signed the bill she has been pushing for several weeks.
It has been reported Speaker Pelosi needed to read the bill and understand it thoroughly in order to sign this important piece of legislation, yet she appointed the conferees, gave them directions on the conference meetings, talked about the fact the president should sign the bill and told him to calm down because there was a new congress in town.
Today, President Bush vetoed that bill and made the statement that this bill is bad not only due to the withdrawal timelines, but because it had requirements in it that would allow congress to oversee the war from Washington DC. Commanders would have to check with congress before they could do anything.
He also made the argument about all the pork in the bill, and so he used his veto pen for only the second time in his presidency.
He has called for congressional leaders to meet with him on Wednesday and to come up with a compromise bill that will not tie the hands of our troops in Iraq.
In the meantime, the Pentagon is having to pull money from other vital areas such as the purchasing and repair of equipment needed to protect our soldiers. Training will be affected.
Now, the American people, of which I am but one, ask congress and the president to be adults and come up with a plan that will work and will not tie the hands of our military serving over there, and to do it post haste.
Update: From Breitbart News with a hat tip to Sister Toldjah,<):) who also has the video of Biden telling a Democratic supporter they are going to push the veto down Bush's throat.
Bush signed the veto with a pen given to him by Robert Derga, the father of Marine Corps Reserve Cpl. Dustin Derga, who was killed in Iraq on May 8, 2005. The elder Derga spoke with Bush two weeks ago at a meeting the president had with military families at the White House.
Derga, whose son was with a unit from Columbus, Ohio, asked Bush to promise to use the pen in his veto. On Tuesday, Derga contacted the White House to remind Bush to use the pen, and so he did.
Also a hat tip to Sue <):) who reminded me I needed to put this update in.
Written by Jeanette
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