{"id":1188,"date":"2007-04-28T18:07:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T23:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/28\/632-days\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T18:35:31","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T23:35:31","slug":"632-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/28\/632-days\/","title":{"rendered":"my will…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bush to Democrats: do not ‘test my will’ on Iraq<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

President George W. Bush warned Democrats Friday not to "test my will" by passing new legislation on a US troop pullout from Iraq after he vetoes a bill passed by Congress this week. Bush invited Democrats and leaders of his Republican Party to discuss a way out of their standoff soon after he strikes down the bill, which ties 124 billion dollars in war funds to a withdrawal that would start on October 1. <\/p>\n

"And if the Congress wants to test my will as to whether or not I’ll accept the timetable for withdrawal, I won’t accept one," he told a news conference at his retreat in Camp David, Maryland, alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. "So if they want to try again that which I have said was unacceptable, then of course I’ll veto it," Bush said.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
At the risk of articulating a perfectly obvious point, the phrase "Do not  test my will<\/strong>" is emblematic of a fundamentally flawed President and<\/u> presidency. First off, what is the will of the people [CBS\/NYT<\/strong><\/a>]?<\/div>\n

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But even at that, this phrase makes abundantly clear that he hasn’t given a moment’s thought to what Congress says, or what the people say, or the dismal state of affairs in Iraq itself. He hasn’t even spent a moment alone with his own conscience. It’s simply about  his will<\/u>. He’s even stopped coming up with a rationale for  his will<\/u>. We’re so used to this kind of little boy, pissing contest talk that we don’t even react anymore when he says such things. We’ve stopped expecting him to act like a leader, or even a grown-up. Are his constituents really going to put up with this kind of prepubertal thinking for another 632 more days? It’s hard to imagine…<\/p>\n

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Bush to Democrats: do not ‘test my will’ on Iraq President George W. Bush warned Democrats Friday not to "test my will" by passing new legislation on a US troop pullout from Iraq after he vetoes a bill passed by Congress this week. Bush invited Democrats and leaders of his Republican Party to discuss a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}