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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (761820)	5/1/2007 4:25:16 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I don't think it will backfire. The President will veto the bill. The democrats will make a bunch of noise about overriding the veto...but they can't (and I don't think they want to). They eventually give the President a new funding bill without the specific timelines but with some other kind of verbage moaning and groaning about the war. But without the timelines the President will sign that bill. If he (the President) complains about non-binding, non-timelined moaning and groaning, then he looks bad...cause they are giving him the funding without specific timelines. The democrats then go on TV and say....we gave the president what he wanted, but his plan for Iraq is flawed and the NEXT time he comes back for money, we won't be so easy, but in the interests of supporting the troops and giving the Commander in Chief the opportunity he said he needs...(the surge), here we are. But, Mr. President, this is all on you. The dems curry favor with their left wing, leave ownership of the war with the President, cut off the right wingers who say "you are in this too cause you voted for the war".....and set the stage for a bigger showdown five months from now when the administration needs even MORE money and the tolerance of the American People is less for continued quagmire, the elections are a little closer, etc. If the surge has not done what it was going to do by September, a bunch of republicans will start moving away from the President toward some kind of negotiated withdrawal. If the surge works (which I doubt), the democrats will claim partial credit cause they gave the funding asked for....