To: dogbyte12
What interest group does Donald Rumsfeld belong to?
From the article:
A majority of members of Congress, from both parties, wants to change the law. A House proposal by Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Ga., has 345 co-sponsors. But it would cost as much as $5 billion a year to expand payments to 670,000 disabled veterans, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld earlier this month told lawmakers that the president would veto any bill including the change.
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Of course, it's also possible that certain interest groups are taking advantage of what may be an intractable problem, in order to "blame Bush" and undermine his traditionally high support from the military ...
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*************** What interest group does Donald Rumsfeld belong to?
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say..."intractable" is the operative word here, and I didn't mean Rumsfeld's statement about President Bush's veto was not true, but rather that some "interest groups" would certainly capitalize on the unpopularity of a veto, and possibly even exaggerate or misrepresent the issues in order to make Bush look as bad as possible...
There are those folks out there with "ulterior motives"! I can't believe this President would take these problems lightly, or consider vetoing any remedial legislation without a very good reason, but he certainly needs to communicate his views and reasons more clearly (or, they need to be reported and understood more clearly)...