Comments on: Bush water bill veto overridden

By: Fresh Bilge » Decimate Congress!

Fresh Bilge » Decimate Congress! — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:57:05 +0000

[...] evening at Hot Air, I read the unfortunate story of the veto override. Perhaps it would have been wiser for Bush to let the water-pork pass [...]

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:06:39 +0000

The Congress, addicted to pork, wouldn’t let him.

Schweine!

By: billy

billy — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:45:49 +0000

Has PorkBusters come out on this yet? We simply need to target every single piece of crap who voted for this pig-fest.

That includes unfortunately Inhofe (R-OK) who is up for reelection this cycle.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:20:47 +0000

Has PorkBusters come out on this yet? We simply need to target every single piece of crap who voted for this pig-fest.

By: B26354

B26354 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:42:04 +0000

Bush suddenly discovers he has veto power after the Dems take control of Congress. Oink, indeed.

By: Congress overrides Bush veto and rightfully so.

Congress overrides Bush veto and rightfully so. — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:21:41 +0000

[...] Here’s is an opinion that counters mine, at Hot-Air. [...]

By: fred5678

fred5678 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:58:24 +0000

Secret conference add-ons should be posted on every telephone pole. Expose the weasels! Or outlaw the practice. (My) Senator Ensign, here in a DESERT(!) state, managed to vote against it, and just yesterday issued a press release about this topic: ENSIGN: AMERICANS DESERVE BETTER MANAGEMENT OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS

By: MirCat

MirCat — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:50:24 +0000

Someone needs to float a bill that makes bills have something like mission statements. Everything in the bill must support that statement. I.E. Unrelated earmarks are quashed.

Of course no one in power would dare do that.

- The Cat

By: madmonkphotog

madmonkphotog — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:13:16 +0000

so, pork barrel project are out of control, but the prez doesn’t want to spend necessary dollars to protect this country?

wow. it seems we all wasted our last vote.

By: lan astaslem

lan astaslem — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:06:12 +0000

Hey -- looky at all the prez candidates that couldn't find the time to vote -- again.

By: Hollowpoint

Hollowpoint — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:04:46 +0000

Coleman (R-MN), Yea

If I stay home on election day next year, it would be the first Presidential year election I’ve ever missed.

Thanks, Senator Coleman, for giving me little reason to feel guilty about it should I decide to sit this one out.

By: D2Boston

D2Boston — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:53:21 +0000

They’re a bunch of pigs, alright…

By: CP

CP — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:50:02 +0000

Seriously, when are these quiet, non-debatable, non-amendable earmarks going to be outlawed? It’s a blatant license to steal.

By: Bad Candy

Bad Candy — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:33:34 +0000

I was disappointed, but not surprised to see Susan Collins in the ‘yea’ camp. Much more of this nonsense and there really is no good reason to vote for her next year.

Slublog on November 8, 2007 at 1:23 PM

They work hard for their low low poll numbers.

Nobody follows a kosher diet in Congress.

By: asc85

asc85 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:32:27 +0000

Does anyone know why McCaskill, the Democratic Senator from Missouri voted “Nay” for this?

By: wolfrab

wolfrab — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:31:42 +0000

Another reason not to vote for anyone that is an incumbant.

By: reaganaut

reaganaut — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:29:40 +0000

the Army Corps has a backlog of $58 billion worth of projects and an annual budget of about $2 billion to address them.

Why not just earmark 230 billion? Maybe 230 trillion. It would be nice if these clowns actually did some work on the few days a year they are actually in session, instead of campaigning through legislation.

And how much money do the feds keep spending on a city that is built below sea-level, in a hurricane zone, in between a massive lake… ah what’s the use?

By: amerpundit

amerpundit — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:29:24 +0000

Congress always manages to agree on one thing: Pork spending. Border defense gets cut out of a defense bill, but we can always manage to find room for pork in the budget.

By: Kini

Kini — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:27:24 +0000

I guess it’s too late to stop bad habits.

By: Slublog

Slublog — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:23:09 +0000

I was disappointed, but not surprised to see Susan Collins in the 'yea' camp. Much more of this nonsense and there really is no good reason to vote for her next year.

By: Bigfoot

Bigfoot — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:20:54 +0000

Churchill was right. The dog looks up to man, the cat looks down at man, but when a pig looks at man, he sees his equal. I would only add “in the U.S. Congress” to the last sentence.