From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:23:29 -0500, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>> > Seems simple enough to me - the Administration is telling Congress it
>> > has no
>> > choice.
>>
>> In a practical (i.e., political) sense they are probably quite right.
>> In
>> a legal sense, no.
>
> That's precisely what I mean.  The Treasury is telling Congress what it
> "has" to do.
>
> If Congress were Democrat.controlled, Shrub's entire attitude would have
> to
> be different.
>
>
>

No, Treasury isn't "telling Congress what it 'has' to do." 
Congress could just as easily thumb its nose at Bush and do otherwise, like
on the ports business.  What is really happening is that the Dems are
trying to hold the process hostage, rather like the ill-advised attempt of
the GOP to shut the government down under Clinton at one point.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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