Bush to Congress: Drop Dead

[ProSense]

Bush to Congress: Drop Dead

by Rick Albertson on October 3rd, 2007

The headline for this blog entry may be a play on words, but the subject is anything but playful.

In 1975, when another Republican president refused to sign legislation that would have helped New York City avoid collapsing into bankruptcy, that city's Daily News flagged the story with the best-known tabloid headline ever printed — "Ford to City: Drop Dead."

This morning, when the current Republican president refused to sign legislation that would have provided health care to millions of lower-income kids, he was essentially telling them the same thing that Ford told New York.

This is the same Republican president, remember, who has already thrown away more than 700 billion dollars over the last five years on an unnecessary, unwinnable war in Iraq.

But he refused this morning to commit less than one-twentieth of that amount over the next five years to protect the health of more than 10 million children here at home.

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A lot more responses to Bush's veto at the link.

[LiberalEsto]

1. He doesn't need to tell them that

They already have...

[SomeGuyInEagan]

2. Congress to Bush: "Sorry to have bothered you ...

...we cower in your presence and are led by wimps and tools who will cave to your every whim. Please like us. Please."

[robinlynne]

3. Almost simultaneously congress gave Bush another 4 billion for the war.

[robinlynne]

4. My bad. 459 billion for the pentagon today, thanks to congress.

[SeattleGirl]

5. Yep. Bush says they already have health care - the emergency room.

Hey dumbshit, when people use the ER as their regular "doctor", it ends up costing us even more, ya fucking moran. :nuke:

[Imagevision]

6. Spineless Senators won't pull purse strings because they all fear losing

their jobs in 08 election.