Darrell Issa (a House rep from a San Diego county area - is on the committee which takes the two bills and tries to make some kind of compromise). According to Darrell, who was on Mark Larson's program the other day KOGO 600, the House committee members are loaded for a fight over this bill. They are totally opposed to most of what the Senate has included in their bill - and Darrell says the House members are ready to take a tough stand against it.
I sure hope he really meant it .. because we're going to be madder than hell if they cave to the senate.
I am very critical of this administration. In all honesty, I gain no pleasure from it. If folks think I relish dogging the party I grew up in, they're sadly mistaken.
Talk show host George Putnam has been a life-long Democrat. He's as conservative as anyone. He refuses to change parties saying, "I never left the Democrat party. It left me."
These days I know exactly what he means.
I couldn't respect myself if I stood by and said nothing in objection to the Senate bill that has just been voted out.
The Bush administration is convinced it is right. I don't think I've seen an administration that I wanted to be able to support, be more wrong than this, in my lifetime.