The Congress That Wouldn’t Govern
Friday, October 26th, 2007That’s President Bush’s opinion on the Democratic leadership not getting their budget work done. In addition to them not getting the appropriations bills passed before the end of FY2007, their idea of compromise isn’t compromise:
Bush returned from a tour of the wildfire destruction in California last night to find the House having passed another children’s health insurance bill that he promises to veto, and he already had received another “fiscally irresponsible” bill earlier the week in which he said House and Senate negotiators haggling over $14 billion and $15 billion spending bills had driven their compromise up to $23 billion.
“In Washington, that’s called splitting the difference,” Bush said with some visible disgust.
It’s time to call this bunch ‘The Congress That Wouldn’t Govern’. Thus far, they’ve had more missteps and blunders than any congress since I started voting in 1974. That’s what you get when you put dimwits like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in charge. Instead of working diligently on the appropriations bills, Ms. Pelosi instead chose to pass another SCHIP bill that President Bush has promised to veto.
Thus far, a strong case can be made that neither house of Congress is the least bit adept at prioritizing their time. They wasted 100+ days before passing the latest Iraq war supplemental. They couldn’t leave on time for their August recess because they hadn’t passed a bill to let the NSA do their job of intercepting terrorist communications.
That’s before we’re talking about how much time they wasted on several amnesty bills that went nowhere. Their only ‘accomplishments’ thus far are increasing the minimum wage and earmark/ethics ‘reform’. the earmark reform is a RINO- Reform In Name Only. Pelosi and company couldn’t even pass a clean minimum wage bill. (more…)