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truthpusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 07:26 AM
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Bush refusal to bend is break for Dems
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20050623/pl_usatoday/bushrefusaltobendisbreakfordems&printer=1;_ylt=AvTiedqUiUNMTV.SJI7otq0JCGYD;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-

Bush refusal to bend is break for Dems News analysis by Judy Keen and Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY
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President Bush's re-election set the stage for a new Republican revolution. Voters elected a president with big ideas and strengthened Republican control of Congress. "I earned political capital ... and now I intend to spend it," Bush said on Nov. 4.

Congress isn't always buying.

Bush has not unified his party around his plan to overhaul Social Security. A senior Republican senator, George Voinovich of Ohio, helped trigger the opposition that has stalled confirmation of John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations. Republicans helped foil White House plans to bar Democrats from filibustering Bush's judicial nominees in the Senate.

In the House, 50 Republicans voted against Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and 38 broke ranks to vote for ending FBI scrutiny of libraries under the USA Patriot Act. Last week, Rep. Walter Jones (news, bio, voting record), R-N.C., whose district includes the Marines' Camp Lejeune, joined Democrats in demanding a timetable for a pullout from Iraq.

At a White House lunch for Senate Republicans this week, Bush touted votes to limit bankruptcy and class-action lawsuits as big GOP victories. But he's having trouble building momentum for his second-term priorities as he prepares to fill a possible Supreme Court vacancy.



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Oversea Visitor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 07:33 AM
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1. See Chimp
You walking disaster
wreck US even republican party
Now they wreck you
Bye bye Chimp
All elected representative please come get a
chIMPEACH Dont rush dont rush
got enough for 540 million angry Americans too
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Puzzler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 09:53 AM
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2. The only reason Bush refuses to bend...
... is that his puppet-masters refuse to let him bend.

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