From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:35:33 +0100, Adam
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:

>John Cuccia wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:10:17 -0500, "Robert G Lewis"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> I'm just surprised that Bush chose to make this a fight. He's
never shown
>>> any hesitation on 'Signing Statements' before.
>>
>> He's picking this fight to lay the groundwork for blaming the
>> Democrats for a defeat in Iraq, and to enable 30 more years of whining
>> from the warmongers about how the liberal pussies in the Democratic
>> Party, along with their fellow travelers in the media, cost us the
>> "war".
>
>Blimey that'll be a work of art were they able to pull it off. Also
>given their deep incompetence & reliance on "true
believers" I can't see
>it likely as there is not a lot more ardent an enemy than a betrayed
>believer.

It's a desperate measure, for sure, but it isn't a betrayal of Bush's base.
 Quite the contrary: by vetoing the Dem-sponsored legislation, he can claim
to be "staying the course" (or whatever his latest slogan might
be).  His true believers are eating it up.

Besides, he's veto-proof.

From the standpoint of pure political strategy, the best thing for the Dems
would have been continued Republican control of Congress.  After two more
years of total control, the GOP would have been finished, destroyed from
the inside.

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