Raw Story / AP: ANOTHER "blow to Bush"..NO Wiretap Bill before mid-terms

[Human Torch]

Posted on Tue, Sep. 26, 2006

Congress unlikely to pass wiretapping

LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press



WASHINGTON - Congress is unlikely to approve a bill giving President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program legal status and new restrictions before the November midterm elections, dealing a significant blow to one of the White House's top wartime priorities.

House and Senate versions of the legislation differ too much to bridge the gap by week's end, when Congress recesses until after the Nov. 7 elections, according to two GOP leadership aides who demanded anonymity because the decision had not yet been announced.

House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters Tuesday that his chamber would bring up a bill by Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M. Asked whether that version could be reconciled with the Senate's White House-approved bill, Boehner replied:

"We'd like to, but I think that might be a stretch."

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15613307.htm

[Catherine Vincent]

1. ewww. Bush's tongue!

[Nite Owl]

6. Look carefully

I think it is forked, Chavez was right!

[hlthe2b]

2. oooohhhh, that pic is just so nauseating....

I could never hold back the barf bag if forced to watch him eat.... He is just such a grotesque human being.....uggghhh...

[C_U_L8R]

4. choking up a republican lung cookie

blecccch !!!

(sorry i'm sure no one needed that color commentary)

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Some NPR political hack was swooning about how that bill was a sure

thing, along with the torture one.

[AtomicKitten]

5. excellent news

Gawd, Bush is one ugly sumbitch.