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To: TimF who wrote (340658)	6/17/2007 10:40:12 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572381

Huh? The horses have left the barn and are long gone......as well as all the other animals.......and suddenly, he's figured out he has a veto. I want you to see how your people operate. Bush knows the out of control spending will stop under the Dems........and that the GOP spending spree of the last six years is over. So now he's going to start using his veto to stop any bills he doesn't like and claim he's doing it to keep spending down. In addition, he is hoping this is another chance for him to leave the White House a hero. Now excuse me while I close the post.....the stink from this article is making me sick. ************************************************************************************************************************** Bush says he'll use his veto pen on excessive spending bills** June 16, 2007 BY DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press CRAWFORD, Texas---- President Bush warned Congress on Saturday that he will use his veto power to stop runaway government spending. ''The American people do not want to return to the days of tax-and-spend policies,'' Bush said in his radio address. The House passed a $37 billion budget for the Homeland Security Department on Friday, but Republicans rallied enough votes to uphold a promised veto from Bush. The measure -- one of several annual spending bills that Congress began to consider this week -- exceeds Bush's request for the department by $2.1 billion. The administration, hoping to appease Republicans who demand fiscal restraint, has pledged to keep overall spending to the level in Bush's proposed budget in February. The president has had uneven success. Most recently, Democrats added $17 billion to an Iraq war funding bill, money not sought by Bush. All told, Democrats plan spending increases for annual agency budgets of about $23 billion above the White House budget request. House GOP conservatives have pledged to come up with the votes needed to uphold any Bush vetoes. ''I am not alone in my opposition,'' Bush said, stressing that 147 Republicans in the House have pledged to stand with him. ''These 147 members are more than the one-third needed to sustain my veto of any bills that spend too much.'' The president, though, has backed away from his veto threat of the politically sensitive bill to fund veterans' programs. It exceeds Bush's request by $4 billion, or 7 percent, but the president acquiesced when GOP lawmakers made it clear that with troops overseas, they were not interested in squaring off with Democrats over spending for veterans. In his radio broadcast, Bush also railed against earmarks -- a common Capitol Hill practice of slipping pet projects into spending bills. He said that in January, the House passed a rule that called for full disclosure of earmarks. To give the public a chance to peek at earmarks, he said the administration has started posting them on a web site called www.earmarks.omb.gov. When they ran the House, Republicans larded legislation with these pet projects. But on Thursday, they were the ones forcing Democrats to be more open about Congress' pork barrel ways. After days of bickering, Democrats this week abandoned plans to pass spending bills without allowing foes of so-called earmarks to challenge them in the full House. The hope is that by shedding more light on earmarks, excessive spending on home district projects will be curtailed. Copyright 2007 Associated Press. suntimes.com

To: TimF who wrote (340658)	6/18/2007 10:31:16 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572381

Iraq now ranked second among world's failed states By David Morgan Iraq has emerged as the world's second most unstable country, behind Sudan, more than four years after President George W. Bush ordered the U.S. invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, according to a survey released on Monday. The 2007 Failed States Index, produced by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace, said Iraq suffered a third straight year of deterioration in 2006 with diminished results across a range of social, economic, political and military indicators. Iraq ranked fourth last year. Afghanistan, another war-torn country where U.S. and NATO forces are battling a Taliban insurgency nearly six years after a U.S.-led invasion, was in eighth place. "Iraq and Afghanistan, the two main fronts in the global war on terror, both suffered over the past year," a report that accompanied the figures said. "Their experiences show that billions of dollars in development and security aid may be futile unless accompanied by a functioning government, trustworthy leaders, and realistic plans to keep the peace and develop the economy." The index said Sudan, the world's worst failed state, appears to be dragging down its neighbors Central African Republic and Chad, with violence in the Darfur region responsible for at least 200,000 deaths and the displacement of 2 million to 3 million. The authors of the index said one of the leading benchmarks for failed state status is the loss of physical control of territory or a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. Other attributes include the erosion of legitimate authority, an inability to provide reasonable public services and the inability to interact with other states as a full member of the international community. Foreign Policy magazine is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington-based think tank. The Fund for Peace is an independent research group devoted to preventing and resolving conflicts.