Bush Tests His Veto Power
Light of Reason writes that Bush is finally flexing his veto muscle in the face of a proposal to scale back portions of the Patriot Act.
Meanwhile, the administration once again wipes its collective butt with at least one of the Ten Commandments, denying that it ever called Iraq an “imminent threat.”
[This version has #9 as “You Shall Not Commit Purgery.” The Catholic version has #9 as “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife,” but #8 as “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” They also disagree on the which commandment forbids murder. Maybe that’s why Bush missed that one, too. No wonder religion is at the root of so much conflict; they can’t even agree on their basic set of rules.]
In his post about Bush’s new discovery of the veto, Arthur Silber writes:
I swear, if you read about an administration like this one in a novel, you would laugh it off as unbelievable and ludicrous. And yet it’s all true — all too tragically true and being inflicted on every single one of us, day after day after day.
Even more tragic is the fact that we’re letting them inflict it on us..
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