{"id":1228,"date":"2007-05-09T18:15:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T23:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/09\/its-down-to-one-answer\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T20:35:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T01:35:09","slug":"its-down-to-one-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/09\/its-down-to-one-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"it’s down to one answer…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I find myself a little paralyzed about the State of the Union this last couple of days. I think it has been since the Condoleeza Rice interview I mentioned below<\/strong><\/a> [echoing President Bush]: <\/div>\n
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In an interview last night on the Charlie Rose Show, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointedly said, “… the Iraqis need to know that we are not looking to leave Iraq.” “Ever?” Rose asked. Rice responded, “We are not going to leave an Iraq that is not capable of defending itself and with a foundation for future reconciliation.” <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The Administration has no real plan for how to change the situation there. The Administration has no plan for staying or leaving. And the Administration has no plan to make a plan.<\/div>\n
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In the middle of writing this, my wife called about the evening news. Tim Russert was talking about a meeting yesterday between the Administration and Republican Congressional leaders. They "blah, blah, strong language, blah, blah." But I still think "blah, blah, blah" about covers it. This is the Washington Post<\/strong>:<\/div>\n
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Bush Threatens Veto of New Iraq Bill<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

President Bush would veto the new Iraq spending bill being developed by House Democrats because it includes unacceptable language restricting funding, White House press secretary Tony Snow said Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Snow said of the bill: "There are restrictions on funding and there are also some of the spending items that were mentioned in the first veto message that are still in the bill."<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
This is the New York Times<\/strong>:<\/div>\n
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Bush Would Veto Democrats’ New Iraq Bill<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

The White House threatened on Wednesday to veto a proposed House bill that would pay for the war only through July — a limit Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned would be disastrous.<\/p>\n

The warnings came as Democratic leaders wrestled with how to support the troops but still challenge President Bush on the war. Bush has requested more than $90 billion to sustain the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through September.<\/p>\n

Democrats were unbowed.<\/p>\n

"With this latest veto threat, the president has once again chosen confrontation over cooperation," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n

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In a flash of defiance, House Democratic leaders this week promoted legislation that would provide the military $42.8 billion to keep operations going through July, buy new equipment and train Iraqi and Afghan security forces. Congress would decide shortly before its August recess whether to release an additional $52.8 billion to fund the war through September. <\/div>\n

”In essence, the bill asks me to run the Department of Defense like a skiff, and I’m trying to drive the biggest supertanker in the world, "Gates told senators Wednesday. ”And we just don’t have the agility to be able to manage a two-month appropriation very well."<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Executive [as in Executive Branch] is supposed to be the "do things" part of our government. He’s doing nothing and shooting down anyone else’s attempts to act. He’s not capable of doing much more than sitting there like he did when he was told about 911 – frozen.<\/p>\n

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Impeachment of both George W. Bush and<\/u> Richard Cheney is the only<\/u> answer to the Iraq War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I find myself a little paralyzed about the State of the Union this last couple of days. I think it has been since the Condoleeza Rice interview I mentioned below [echoing President Bush]: In an interview last night on the Charlie Rose Show, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointedly said, “… the Iraqis need to […]<\/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-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","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=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}