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To: alessandrofiaschi

CONGRESS controls spending.


41 posted on 09/25/2005 11:20:22 AM PDT by Paladin2 (MSM rioted over Katrina and looted the truth)
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To: Paladin2
CONGRESS controls spending.

And Bush doesn't have the balls to stop the REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED congress and their profligate, obscene spending orgy.

If he doesn't veto spending, then he supports it.

44 posted on 09/25/2005 11:24:11 AM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: Paladin2
CONGRESS controls spending.

So you're blaming ALL Republicans for their drunken sailor behavior. Well at least we're getting somewhere now. BTW ever heard of the word "veto"? Didn't think so.

46 posted on 09/25/2005 11:25:03 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: Paladin2; Keith

Regarding this notion that Congress, not the president, controls spending:

First of all, others have already pointed out that the president has veto power, and that your comment is simply an attack on Republicans in Congress. But in addition, you're ignoring how the real world works, distinct from the theoretical, academic world where one learns everything about government from the constitution.

In the real world, Bush has priorities and pushes Congress to enact them. He can bend members of Congress to his will because he can, say, refuse to campaign for them. Or he can refuse to fund projects in their districts. Or he can do any number of other things to exert influence. True, a president is not a dictator; he can't do anything he wants. Congress feels influence from many sources, not just the White House. But the White House sure is a big one. And in the case of President Bush, he very strongly pushed (or even initiated) a number of big spending bills, pressuring legislators who didn't want to go along.


68 posted on 09/25/2005 11:47:16 AM PDT by BackInBlack ("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
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To: Paladin2

Is the GOP majority in Congress or not?


92 posted on 09/25/2005 12:04:49 PM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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To: Paladin2
CONGRESS controls spending.

Like another poster said, should we get rid of the Republicans in Congress? And who is the one that can veto spending bills?

138 posted on 09/25/2005 1:47:46 PM PDT by Black Tooth (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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