WA POST: Veto Is Certain, Bush Tells Pelosi = children's health program

[L. Coyote]

Veto Is Certain, Bush Tells Pelosi
By CHARLES BABINGTON - AP - Sep 28, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/28/AR2007092800178.html?hpid=sec-politics

WASHINGTON -- President Bush insisted to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday that he's going ahead with his promised veto of a major expansion of a children's health program despite its overwhelming approval by Congress.

Pelosi, D-Calif., said she told Bush in a morning phone call that she was praying he would change his mind. "I think I have to pray a little harder," she told reporters moments later, at a Capitol ceremony where Democrats celebrated passage of the proposed $35 billion increase in the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
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It's doubtful that any new arguments were made in what Pelosi called "a friendly, friendly conversation." She said she reminded Bush that many Republicans voted to raise tobacco taxes to fund a program expansion, and that many governors from both parties support it.

"He said he liked people who don't give up," Pelosi said, but he also made it clear he is not backing down. ....

[Selatius]

1. You got to admit that Bush has the fortitude of his convictions, however misguided they are.

If only we had people who were as stubborn as that and also possessed the reasoned stance, this country wouldn't be as far down the shitter it already is.

[Skip Intro]

3. or that he's a puppet on a string

[irish.lambchop]

2. There was one para. in your post I didn't get

but I did hear a clip of pelosi saying that she was "praying" he wouldn't veto it and that she'd have to "pray harder". She's PRAYING?!

[madrchsod]

4. well he is a christian....

i think she was being a bit sarcastic and the "praying harder" went right over his head.