Veto Bush!

Written by: Sheri Divers on May 2, 2007 3:02 PM EDT

With Bush's veto yesterday, he has accelerated the death of the Republican Party. William F. Buckley, known in some quarters as "the father of the modern Conservative Movement," is beside himself with worry over what has become of that which he begat - the Bush Republican:

The political problem of the Bush administration is grave, possibly beyond the point of rescue. The opinion polls are savagely decisive on the Iraq question. About 60 percent of Americans wish the war ended — wish at least a timetable for orderly withdrawal. What is going on in Congress is in the nature of accompaniment. The vote in Congress is simply another salient in the war against war in Iraq. Republican forces, with a couple of exceptions, held fast against the Democrats’ attempt to force Bush out of Iraq even if it required fiddling with the Constitution. President Bush will of course veto the bill, but its impact is critically important in the consolidation of public opinion. It can now accurately be said that the legislature, which writes the people’s laws, opposes the war.

...There are grounds for wondering whether the Republican party will survive this dilemma.

I say: The Democratic Leadership must dig down and increase the political pressure on the White House and the Republican Congress by sending up another bill that contains benchmarks and deadlines.

Let Bush veto it again because each time he vetoes - the American people continue to watch and get more and more livid at Bush and the Republican Party who continue to ignore the outrage of the American people. All the better to make the anger seethe within them and hopefully linger as they cast their votes in the local and municipal elections of 2007 and the Federal elections of 2008.

We voted the Democratic Majority into office to stand up to the Bush White House, end this war and bring our troops home!

I am also delighted that Reid and Pelosi are learning the art of political theatre. Lord knows the Republicans have been beating us at this for quite some time. They correctly sent the troop funding legislation to the White House on the same day that Bush had that now infamous Mission Accomplished photo op that the corporate media went gaga over back in May, 2003. See Reid and Pelosi's elaborate and very public bill signing ceremony:

They look decent, reasonable, prudent, patriotic and very committed to ending this war. Brilliant!

Full speed ahead, troops! Take'em off at the knees!

UPDATE 4:27PM: This just in --- from a Dem with a backbone: Senator Russ Feingold! My sentiments EXACTLY!

-Sheri Divers

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