did you hear bush say he would introduce new legislation??? HE is not congress

[greenbriar]

he seems to forget his place


wish someone would set him in it

[indepat]

1. He is the decider, the truth, light and way for his faithful flock

[ccpup]

2. He's an idiot

who has no idea how our form of Government works. He thinks he's the "boss", blissfully unaware -- in his own private Happy Land -- that we, The People, are actually the Boss.

Stupid phuck.

[greenbriar]

3. stupid phuck is right

asshole works too

[daveskilt]

9. In Scotland we use the word fuckwit. Best word for Bush I've heard so far.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. How the hell does this even work? Does Team Bush write up a bill, hand it to some Repub congressman,

and say, "Here, put this in the hopper, say it's yours"?

[greenbriar]

5. I am sure that is exactly how he does it

sept he doesn't have tommy tom anymroe

[AndyA]

6. That's been going on for six years. n/m

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. I seem to remember Sensebrenner (sp?) being the point man on some of this. I suppose

part of the strategy is to have a congressperson introduce legislation that doesn't have an adverse effect in their own district, to help protect their seat.

[lynne]

10. That's pretty much the way I understand it -

- a President can't submit a bill but they can propose one and have a member of congress submit it.

[daveskilt]

21. actually an oil company writes the legislation hands it to bush, who THEN hands it on

to a repub congresscritter.

[WCGreen]

7. Every president sends stuff to the hill.....

They just weren't as stupid as Bush to claim he is going to introduce new legislation...

[driver8]

11. He's never read the Constitution...he's got Alberto to do that for him.

Just as soon as he gets done wiping his ass with it...

[greenbriar]

19. true

that

[sendero]

12. He really thinks.....

... he can bully his way around still. Elections have consequences, Dim Son.

[liberalnurse]

13. Let him walk in with the paper work

and try and introduce a Bill............:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Where do you think he would go....The House or the Senate??????????????????

[durtee librul]

14. Probably the closet with

one of his repuke 'buddies'.....too bad Foley ain't around anymore...oops, that's right, he only liked congressional aides...well, Bush IS mentally young...(no slam to the aides intended)..oh who knows, he still has Johnny McCain...and let's not forget Lyin' Joe L....

[liberalnurse]

17. Yea!

:rofl:

Worse yet, the truth is he probably thinks he CAN just walk in and run the Congress and does not need a Congressional member the "legislate" his bidding. He is truly clueless.

[durtee librul]

15. Delete dupe....

[greenbriar]

16. its okay

:)

[HamdenRice]

18. OK, Civics lesson: Presidents do propose legislation to Congress

Just for one historic example, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was sent by Lyndon Johnson to Congress in 1965. Obviously, it is Congress that passes laws, and under the rules of procedure legislation must have a member of Congress to sponsor it.

But really anyone can submit draft laws to Congress, including the president. In fact, sadly, a lot of legislation is written by lobbyists and sponsored by a member.

When it is said that the president submitted a bill, more than likely what is meant is that an executive agency has submitted a bill. For example, the Justice Department tends to draft crime legislation, the EPA drafts environmental legislation, the Education Department drafts environmental legislation, and so on.

So although the wording may be a little infelicitous, there is nothing unusual about the concept of the president "sending" or "introducing" a bill to Congress.

The only thing unusual is that anything that Bush or any of his minions submit is likely to be a piece of shit.

[ComerPerro]

20. I wondered when someone would point this out, lol. Embarassing

[tritsofme]

22. Finally, someone without a knee jerk reaction

in this thread...