Wow! Some people with Backbone! This is the bill they overrode the veto on.
In other news, Darth Cheney’s impeachment has been blocked. Kucinich turns down hunting invitation.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.
There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.
This really is a full service blog.
When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?
GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.
They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.
Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.
’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’
Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.
So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.
Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?
This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.
I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.
Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.
Nothing worth doing is easy.
These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.
Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?
Peak wingnut was a lie.
Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.
Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
The Pirate
Great, they override the most useless of the vetoed bills. Go Congress!
capelza
If that ain’t the most ironic thing of this president’s veto policy. Amazing how the 2006 election made him start paying attention to anything fiscal.
Maybe the Congress will come to like the taste of an override and man (or woman as the case may be) up!
Michael D.
I know. How brave of them, right? :-)
Dreggas
Ummm,
I know there are more important bills and all but your very own state of georgia is running low on potable water Michael, in case you didn’t know, and we are facing a very very big issue water wise, across much of the nation and it’s going to get worse over the next 5 years.
The Other Steve
Ok, so congress ain’t very brave.
But this is a substantial blow to Bush.
The Other Steve
People need to use less water.
Here’s a tip for your lawn folks… Leave your grass an inch higher than you normally do. It’ll require less water that way.
Better yet, don’t water it. Let it go dormant on it’s own. Then you don’t have to mow!
sglover
About that Kucinich bill: My understanding is that it’s not dead, but rather that the vote sent it John Conyers’ Judiciary Committee. Pelosi and Hoyer, representing gutless weaseldom as usual, **tried** to have it killed, but their maneuver failed. Interestingly, many House Republicans, evidently eager for an open debate, voted **for** the bill in an earlier vote. Gotta give ’em credit — at least they’re willing to fight for their cause. I wonder what it’d be like if the Dems ever tried that?
That said, I hope somebody else looks into this, because the procedural mechanics are confusing, and right now Thomas.gov doesn’t have a vote tally yet.
Dreggas
TOS,
Not going to disagree about water usage but a lot of the reason we’re running out has to do with drought, not just usage.
r€nato
That’s like Slash turning down a smoke because, you know, nicotine is a drug man!
Seriously… how can Chimpy say this shit with a straight face? Fiscal discipline? I guess Halliburton needed that $23 billion even more, to buy some more semi trucks to carry ‘sailboat fuel’ ,to replace the ones they leave stranded on the road when they get a flat tire.
r€nato
as usual, Bill Maher said it best last Friday. (paraphrased) “I’m willing to compromise – can’t the Democrats grow just one ball?”
jake
I KAN HAZ NU PREZIDNT??
Chris Johnson
PrezNIT. not DNT. PrezNIT. Because he GIV ME TURKEE.
danelectro
this just is just some kabuki, so that the gop congress can distance themselves from bush, on an insubstantial (national politicswise) matter.
not a trend.
Tim C
Of course they overturned the veto on this bill. This veto hit them right where it hurts — in the pork.
Punchy
What is it, a kilo?
Seriously, hold you applause until you see the signing statement. I’m sure “water projects control” falls under Article II, and besides, building dams just gives terrists shit to blow up.
Jess
Many of them are–just not enough of them. Let’s start calling the wusses out by name rather than giving them cover by slamming Dems in general.
sglover
Just last week I spoke to one of the better ones, Van Hollen (MD-08), at a “town hall” meeting. He isn’t useless, like Wynn in the adjacent district (MD-04), nor is he an unprincipled weasel like Hoyer, from another nearby district. After only two terms, Van Hollen is already in leadership positions.
I came away from it more demoralized than ever. Van Hollen’s argument (i.e., dodge) for not bringing impeachment proceedings? “Think of the precedent we’d set if we tried and failed.” Specific actions to head off the catastrophe of a war with Iran? NONE.
As I say, he’s one of the better ones. Face it, we have an “opposition” party that can’t oppose, won’t oppose, can’t even grasp the *concept* of opposition. The notion that we should discreetly avoid criticizing “our” party stalwarts because somewhere some Platonic ideal Dem is rumored to exist, and he’ll come out if we just keep mum, is laughable.
Pelosi and Reid and HRC are the perfect representatives of their party.
Evinfuilt
If I recall, this bill manages to both restore wildlife in some area’s while making it a ton worse in others (ie supply water to farmers that are growing food in regions not designed for said food, thus draining water from rivers where its needed and of course dumping even more nitrates into streams.)
Great job overriding a veto on a poorly designed bill, one thats just meant to make “people” happy and not do anything real.
tBone
WRDA is a package bill that authorizes (but does not appropriate) funding for almost 1,000 projects, including massive efforts like the Everglades restoration and environmental restoration and hurricane mitigation in Louisiana. Many of these projects have been in a holding pattern since the last WRDA bill in 2000. Is every one of the authorized projects a winner? No. But many of them are important and will most assuredly do something “real.”