[Seth1]

What now? Conference? When does the president get to lose another 1 or 2% of his base (by signing this)? Soon?

[rwfromkansas]

It will go to the House, the House will vote against it, it will go to conference.

Not a big deal.

If it looks like it will pass conference intact or the House will pass it, that would be a big deal.

[Redcloak]

What now?

Now the House GOP cuts the nonsense out and the spineless Senate 'pubbies cave to them just like they caved to the Dems in their own chamber.

[Henrietta]

"What now? Conference? When does the president get to lose another 1 or 2% of his base (by signing this)? Soon?"

Hey, don't worry, Seth...I'm repeatedly told by the "support Bush at any cost to our liberties" folks on this forum that we who will withhold support for Bush if he signs this bill are so insignificant to the conservative cause that it won't matter who we vote for, or whether we vote at all. So I guess we can all breathe a sigh of relief that when I and others write in Ron Paul or Tom Tancredo if Bush signs this horrible bill, it won't cost Bush the election.

[sport]

It will be more that 2% that he loses.

The United States of America and the Republican Party are the only two enities in the universe that treat their friends worse that they treat their enemies.