political nonsense

People don’t like Congress either.
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The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday night to pay for military operations in Iraq on an installment plan, defying President Bush’s threat of a second straight veto in a fierce test of wills over the unpopular war.
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The Senate passed a bill giving the FDA greater power to police drug safety.
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Congress failed to override President Bush’s veto of legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq on Wednesday, a defeat for anti-war Democrats that triggered immediate talks on a new measure to fund the conflict.
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In Washington, the second highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, Majority whip Richard Durbin of Illinois, said he knew the public were being misled about the Iraq war but he couldn’t do anything about it.
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Barack Obama said he wasn’t planning on nuking anyone at the moment.
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President George Bush is set today to veto a bill that would bring in a timetable to begin withdrawing US troops from Iraq in October and have most of them out by next spring.
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One day after legislative leaders met with President Bush, failing to find common ground, House Democrats signaled their intention to step away from a mandatory deadline to remove troops from Iraq, and to work instead toward a compromise of setting a goal for troops to be withdrawn next year.

But the president said that any timetable for a troop redeployment, even a goal, would face a veto. “I think it’s a mistake,” Mr. Bush said Thursday during a speech in Ohio.
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The Senate majority leader Harry Reid declared that the United States had lost the war in Iraq. Representative Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican, said: “If Harry Reid believes that this war is lost, where is his plan to win this war?”
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Senator John McCain entertained a crowd at a campaign rally in South Carolina by singing “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” to the tune of “Barbara Ann” by the Beach Boys.
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The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to consider voting on a Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
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Newt Gingrich admitted that he was carrying on an extramarital affair while pursuing the impeachment of Bill Clinton but maintained that his behavior was “not related to what happened.”
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Ann Coulter called former Senator John Edwards a faggot.
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Senator Joe Biden (D., Del.) boasted that as president he would pull U.S. troops out of Iraq and send them to “take out the janjaweed” in Darfur, and although he did not know where that is, he was pretty sure it started with an S.
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The Bush administration will inform Congress on Monday that Israel may have violated agreements with the United States when it fired American-supplied cluster munitions into southern Lebanon during its fight with Hezbollah last summer, the State Department said Saturday.
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In the Senate, John Warner of Virginia, former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, joined fellow Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Norm Coleman of Minnesota in producing the non-binding legislation expressing disagreement with Bush’s plan. Their announcement Monday brings to five the number of Senate Republicans publicly opposed to the president’s plan.
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Former Congressman Bob Ney was sentenced to 30 months in prison today for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in illegal gifts in return for using his legislative influence to help his benefactors.
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The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed sweeping changes to ethics and lobbying rules.
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Hilary Clinton said Afghanistan was quite a success story.
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The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved an increase in the minimum hourly wage to $7.25 this afternoon in a vote that Democrats hailed as an overdue raise for low-income workers and a symbol of new leadership on Capitol Hill.
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