“In a political maneuver designed to block my ability to make recess appointments, congressional leaders arranged for a senator to come in every three days or so, bang a gavel, wait for about 30 seconds, bang a gavel again, and then leave,” Bush said. “Under the Senate rules, this counts as a full day. If 30 seconds is a full day, no wonder Congress has got a lot of work to do.”
Senate Democrats had held pro forma sessions throughout the Thanksgiving break to keep the Senate “in session” and block Bush from making recess appointments.
Bush also criticized the Democrats’ continued efforts to end the war in Iraq. He reiterated threats made by Defense Secretary Robert Gates that a failure to get war funds would force the Pentagon to soon begin sending out layoff notices.
The president also called on Congress to pass a permanent update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that is to his liking, a fix that will shield taxpayers from the Alternative Minimum Tax, and the bulk of fiscal year 2008 spending bills that remains undone.
As far as I am concerned if the Congress is making Georgie mad then that is a clear indication that they are finally doing their jobs.
We voted them into office to stop this madman. And it is nice to finally see them applying the damn brakes on this runaway train that we call America.
Maybe now Congress will see their poll numbers starting to rise.
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