[ndt]

"Bush would accept slight delay in ports deal-Rove"

If congress has enough votes to override a veto, he'll have to accept whatever they give him.

[sinkspur]

If congress has enough votes to override a veto, he'll have to accept whatever they give him.

There's not going to be a bill, so Bush won't have to veto anything.

[clawrence3]

Not necessarily - if Congress is infringing on his war powers as Commander-in-Chief, there's not need for the Executive branch to obey un-Constitutional laws.

[isrul]

Does he think using that tone will win supporters? I think the votes are there to easily override any attempted veto and his confrontational attitude isn't going to make things any better for him. Does he actually believe he's calling the shots? Does Rove? Whatever is decided will now be decided by congress. Bush (according to him) wasn't originally in the loop and soon he'll be out of the loop again.. This is not a good thing for the country and perhaps, could have been avoided if Bush had gotten better advice.

[!1776!]

If congress has enough votes to override a veto, he'll have to accept whatever they give him.

Congress is 99% of the freaking problem. The other 1% is made up of the people who don't realize that this issue is not currently controlled by the US government - it's a sale of unit of a British conglomerate to another conglomerate located in another nation that just happens to be the UAE.

Congress's role is to pass laws that ensure (and fund) security at the ports - anything beyond that is their penny anty bullshit attempt to have more control to this situation than they are empowered to. Makes for great news, but worthless results.

And as for an over-rideen veto - if the law violates a trade treaty that has been ratified it violates the constitution and Congress's photo-op actions can get tanked by an un-elected court here or somewhere else.

Focus on the issues at hand - ensuring national security. Push the Congrescritters to get to that issue and how it will be resolved instead of hoping for an instant gratification arm chair general response to an issue that nobody cared about when it was only the Chinese, Singapore, Brits, etc. that were "infiltrating" our ports.