New barbs hit home in US Iraq showdown(White House lashed Congress Friday for going on vacation)

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

New barbs hit home in US Iraq showdown by Stephen Collinson
11 minutes ago



WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House lashed Congress Friday for going on "vacation" before signing off on legislation funding troops in Iraq, driving up tensions in a showdown with Democrats for control of the war.

A day after the Senate passed a bill linking financing for the conflict to a timetable for a 2008 troop withdrawal, the Bush administration said Democratic tactics were already impacting troops and readiness of US forces.

But the top Senate Democrat Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) accused Bush, who has vowed to veto the bill, of using "scare tactics" and distributed a non-partisan study which found the US Army could continue Iraq operations through most of July.

"The president was surprised to learn that Congress went on vacation today," said White House deputy spokeswoman Dana Perino.

Perino said the House of Representatives had failed to appoint members of Congress to liaise with the Senate to refine bills passed in each chamber, which both contain a withdrawal timetable, into a single piece of legislation


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George W. Bush: The War President is Missing in Action
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush:_The_War_President_is_Missing_in_Action

[rodeodance]

1. Bush could always call them back and have his 'showdown"

[xxqqqzme]

3. will he strap on his 'shootin' irons' &

stand out in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue, calling out Pelosi or Reid?

I'd buy a ticket to that!

[underpants]

2. MC Rove should be glad as the Dems were beating them down on a daily basis

at least for us political/news junkies anyway.

Waxman alone is ripping them apart in tiny little pieces and that doesn't even count that the MSM won't dare mention the use of non-White House email accounts to directly break the law.

They should be happy and just take W back inside and rebrief him on some more bullshit talking points er I mean get his drink back on.

[gratuitous]

5. It's like the guy getting his butt whipped in a bar fight

After his assailant has had enough of pummeling him and walks away, the victim hollers from his pooling blood, "Come back here and fight, goddamit!" Just call an ambulance, Spanky; don't you know when you've had enough?

Of course, this Congress wouldn't have needed to pass a supplemental funding bill if the previous Congress had passed a budget that provided adequate funding for the Chimpy's excellent little imperial wars. But they didn't, and Chimpy didn't ask for adequate funding because they wanted to crow about how much smaller the budget deficit was going to be in 2007. And the media ate it up, as if not paying two or three of the biggest bills was a brilliant strategy for balancing the budget.

[underpants]

18. AND guess what-turns out the April 15th deadline is bulls**t too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x542016

[Bozita]

4. Anybody think Bush is gonna stay in the WH over next two weeks?

I'm surprised he doesn't take off for the whole month of Easter.

[DCKit]

9. "whole month of Easter"

You are a card!

[Roland99]

6. So, does this mean Bushco is running this war paycheck-to-paycheck?

Why not ask his oil butt buddies to cough up some billions?

[Demeter]

34. Saudis Slammed the Door in His Face Already

Nobody in Iraq returns his calls. Lebanon is preoccupied, Israel is having political troubles of its own, and Iran would rather spit at him. And while the Khazaks and Usbeckis and alike are mean, tough customers, they aren't about to join any proxy war or political belligerence on any side. The Egyptians aren't dummies, Sudan is in flames, no, there aren't any allies left standing in the oil bidness.

And as for Europe---don't even go there!

[cassiepriam]

35. Spend their own money? No way. Corps are on the public dole these days.

[soothsayer]

7. shrubby, honey, you're going to have to learn to spend your allowance

more carefully.

[closeupready]

8. That is so rich. :-D

Pot meet kettle. I mean, he's taken more vacation time as CIC than any other, hasn't he?

[Virginia Dare]

10. I was really surprised to learn that the Chimp in Chief ...

was strumming guitars and attending birthday parties while we lost the city of New Orleans..

[caledesi]

11. Since when is * against vacation? Seems like he likes it alot!

[MidwestTransplant]

12. Hasn't Bush been on vacay more than any other President EVER?

[thecrow]

21. I heard he was on vacation for a cumulative total of ONE YEAR

[librechik]

25. yeah! Where is Shrub spending the next week or three?

do I smell pig farm?

Dana Perrino should be ashamed to carry those taunts to the people from that ass.

[sarge43]

13. Right

This from the SOB who played a guitar while NOLA and its people drown. FOAD Smirky.:puke:

[tanyev]

29. And don't forget this "working vacation" where they all read the "historical"

PDB entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

[soothsayer]

14. ask the pentagon to find the missing $2.3TRILLION of our money

that rummy reported they couldn't account for on september 10, 2001.

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[stillcool]

15. why doesn't he round up some of those...

millions/billions, that went astray in Iraq? Hang a few defense contractors upside down and see what shakes out of their pockets? Check the Pentagons seat cushions for some loose change.

[Kber]

16. This from the administration that has no e-mails for 18 days

due to the Thanksgiving break?

Or took the entire month of August off in 2001?

Or couldn't be bothered to address the public after the worst natural disaster in modern history (the tsunami) wiped 100K+ people off the earth?

Or when Katrina hit?

I think Bush's balls must be about twice the size of his brain.

[momster]

22. A Magnifying Glass

is needed to see the former...an electron microscope to see the latter.

[antonialee839]

17. Little Lord Pissypants is annoyed with Congress

for going on vacation? That's rich! They did their jobs, which is more than we can say for His Majesty and the
numerous improper vacations he has taken. Hell, he let a whole city sink while on vacation.

[Warren Stupidity]

19. Aren't congressional vacations more or less regularly scheduled?

So Dumbass is basically saying that after six years on the job he still doesn't have a clue how things work? He still gets surprised by the normal and ordinary operations of government?

Here it is right on the website for the house: April 2 - April 13 Spring District Work Period
http://www.house.gov/house/House_Calendar.shtml

And right over here is the senate schedule: April 2-9 Senate not in session
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/two_column_table/2007_Schedule.htm

And where will Dumbass himself be between April 2 and April 9?

[Vinca]

20. Funny, I recall a little guitar strumming and cake eating while

people on the Gulf Coast were struggling to survive Katrina. He who lives in a glass house . . .

[truthisfreedom]

23. It's clear why bush wants to rush this veto and force Congress to rewrite the bill.

Although bush has enough money to run the Iraq war until July, he does NOT have money to do that and fire up the Iranian war at the same time.

It should be clear to everyone here that by refusing to fund the Iraqi war without a pullout timetable, the Democrats have forced bush to delay his April invasion plans in Iran. He was just planning on stealing the money to do what he wanted to with it anyway.

[MasonJar]

24. Now there is a premiere guffaw! Bush criticizing anyone for going on vacation.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

26. Oh, like Bush has any right to bitch at *anyone* for going on vacation.

I sure hope someone smacks him down for this one.

[HuffleClaw]

27. this from the guy who's spent more time on vacation than any other president?

you've really got to commend a spokesperson who can utter such words with a straight face

[wordpix]

33. this from a guy whose repukes in Congress had a 3 day work week every week

[Solly Mack]

30. Oh now that's just too rich

He really doesn't want to play that card

[Toots]

31. Sounds like Bush* wants a "War on Easter"

He wants Congress to work over Easter Vacation. Where is Falwell on this?

[CRK7376]

32. Pot calling the Kettle Black

if you ask me. Shrub goes on vacation all the damn time. Must be nice to fly to TX or Maryland for time off. Seems to do that all the time. Wish I had that much vacation every year....