Bush's dusty veto pen may soon get busy
USA Today
01/07/07
President Bush has vetoed just one bill in nearly six years in office. That soon may change. As newly empowered Democrats forge ahead with their own agenda, some items may make it to his desk as prime candidates for veto. One might be a recycled version of the stem-cell funding bill that drew Bush's lone veto last July. Other possibilities include measures that would raise the minimum wage without offsetting tax breaks for businesses, fully put in place the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations and curb oil-industry subsidies...
http://tinyurl.com/ycw6na
Pelosi's crucial test
San Francisco Chronicle
01/07/07
President Bush and the new Congress are on a collision course over Iraq that could overshadow the Democrats' '100-hour agenda' and end up defining Rep. Nancy Pelosi's tenure as House speaker. Even as the House takes steps this week to raise the minimum wage, expand stem cell research, strengthen homeland security and lower prescription drug prices -- an ambitious lineup -- much of the nation's focus will be on Bush, who is expected to deliver a major address to outline the future of American involvement in Iraq. If the president, as expected, announces his intention to deploy as many as 20,000 additional U.S. troops in Iraq, he may encounter widespread political and public defiance... [editor's note: "May encounter"? Good God, I hope so! - SAT]
http://tinyurl.com/yek4nm
One hundred hours down the drain
Reason
by Brian M. Doherty
01/08/07
The First Hundred Hours have begun. (Lest anyone wonder why they aren't already over, new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi meant congressional working hours, not real hours.) We've seen Pelosi show exactly how much her own wonderfulness needs to be celebrated -- and her grandiose tendency to think of herself as Mangog-like living embodiment of all the glories and splendors of her entire gender. But what of the Democrat's 100 Hours agenda, past celebrating Pelosi-hood? It's not worth the cannoli with which it was launched...
http://www.reason.com/news/show/117702.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
01/07/07
President Bush has vetoed just one bill in nearly six years in office. That soon may change. As newly empowered Democrats forge ahead with their own agenda, some items may make it to his desk as prime candidates for veto. One might be a recycled version of the stem-cell funding bill that drew Bush's lone veto last July. Other possibilities include measures that would raise the minimum wage without offsetting tax breaks for businesses, fully put in place the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations and curb oil-industry subsidies...
http://tinyurl.com/ycw6na
Pelosi's crucial test
San Francisco Chronicle
01/07/07
President Bush and the new Congress are on a collision course over Iraq that could overshadow the Democrats' '100-hour agenda' and end up defining Rep. Nancy Pelosi's tenure as House speaker. Even as the House takes steps this week to raise the minimum wage, expand stem cell research, strengthen homeland security and lower prescription drug prices -- an ambitious lineup -- much of the nation's focus will be on Bush, who is expected to deliver a major address to outline the future of American involvement in Iraq. If the president, as expected, announces his intention to deploy as many as 20,000 additional U.S. troops in Iraq, he may encounter widespread political and public defiance... [editor's note: "May encounter"? Good God, I hope so! - SAT]
http://tinyurl.com/yek4nm
One hundred hours down the drain
Reason
by Brian M. Doherty
01/08/07
The First Hundred Hours have begun. (Lest anyone wonder why they aren't already over, new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi meant congressional working hours, not real hours.) We've seen Pelosi show exactly how much her own wonderfulness needs to be celebrated -- and her grandiose tendency to think of herself as Mangog-like living embodiment of all the glories and splendors of her entire gender. But what of the Democrat's 100 Hours agenda, past celebrating Pelosi-hood? It's not worth the cannoli with which it was launched...
http://www.reason.com/news/show/117702.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
rudkla - 8. Jan, 16:34
