WH & tricks-India nuke deal:-trying to get rid of Congressional oversight

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from Lou Dobbs show tonight

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/26/ldt.01.html

PILGRIM: By law, Congress has the power to block the deal. But the Bush administration wants to change the rules.

GARY MILHOLLIN, THE WISCONSIN PROJECT: What the administration is trying to do is, in effect, get rid of congressional oversight. Under the present rules, Congress has to affirmatively vote yes before an agreement for cooperation with India can go into effect. But the administration is afraid that they can't get that vote. So what they want to do is have the agreement go into effect automatically after 90 days.

PILGRIM: The march signing was only a joint statement of understanding. The Bush administration is trying to force Congress to give up its oversight.

HENRY SOKOLSKI, NPEC: All of those questions seem to be pushed aside by a mad rush to try to get to "yes" and get this thing off -- off the plate. I would hope that people who are concerned about selling our security quickly would say, we really owe it to ourselves to demand that Congress get this right. Right now, most Americans don't know much about this.

PILGRIM: India is anxious to have the deal done. Its reactors are expected to run out of fuel next year.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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1. "we have just about had a belly full of that kind of thing in Washington,"

PILGRIM: Yes, there's a certain amount of monkeying with the rules. They should have a simple majority "yes" or "no" in Congress. They are trying to move that to a two-third vote.

DOBBS: Who is?

PILGRIM: The Bush administration is.

DOBBS: And we have just about had a belly full of that kind of thing in Washington, haven't we?

PILGRIM: Many people were quite upset with this posture today.

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2. kick

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3. Gee, you don't suppose they're worried?

Even the coprophiles of the GOP can see they're losing the majority this cycle, and they're taking steps to ensure the rights of the minority to squash whatever needs squashing.

After spending the last 6 years screaming about the need for pure majority rule.

Does anyone else ever long to feel "surprise" once again?