Marcel Marchon’s Blog

They really shouldn’t be allowed to wrap up completely unrelated things into one piece of legislation. That’s totally ridiculous. And sneaky. And it happens a lot - usually with budget resolutions and things like that …

Defying Bush, Republicans in the House of Representatives intended on Wednesday to attach an amendment blocking the deal to legislation providing $91 billion for states recovering from Hurricane Katrina and to finance wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Ports deal sparks biggest party revolt vs. Bush - Yahoo! News]

If they want to block the ports deal - fine - but do it as a separate piece of legislation. If I were Bush, I’d just stand firm and veto the bill. Take the bad press - what does he care? It’s his last term anyway. Force Congress to either overrule the veto with an appropriate majority or come up with separate bills. This will hurt Congress far more than it will hurt the President. Some members are up for reelection this fall and if their opponents can say “oh, they weren’t even able to approve money for the poor victims of Katrina” that won’t do them much good …