Bush threatens to VETO Hurricane Katrina funding

[Bluebear]

So after all the trillions of dollars His Majesty received for his Excellent Iraq Adventure, all of a sudden spending is too high for Katrina relief?

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WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush threatened on Tuesday to veto a bill to fund the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina rebuilding if its cost exceeds $92.2 billion, as he weighed in on a heated Senate debate over the bill's rising price tag. The veto threat, announced in a White House statement on the $106.5 billion emergency spending measure, was aimed at placating conservatives in Bush's Republican Party who are irate over extra items added that they deem as "special-interest" spending.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060425/pl_nm/congress_funding_veto_dc_1

[bluestateguy]

1. How many of his veto threats have ever resulted in an actual veto?

0

[Arkansas Granny]

3. It sounds like he uses his veto power as blackmail.

[LSparkle]

2. If it doesn't have SCHOOL VOUCHERS in it, veto time

Thugs slipped them in again (after saying they were only trying them one time in the original spending bill); if they're yanked out, ** will probably pull out his veto pen.

[northofdenali]

4. "Special interest" spending...

Indoor plumbing. Electricity. Working sewer/septic. Rebuilt levees.

No, he just wants "special interest" spending to apply ONLY to Halliburton, Bechtel, etc.