Linkmeister

War funding

The pragmatist in me realizes that the Democrats didn't have the votes to override a veto from President Bush if they left the departure timeline in the Iraq funding bill; the mad-as-hell part of me is furious that they took it out.

Politically Bush may have had the upper hand, because he could say the Democrats were holding up funding essential operations. It seems to me the polls indicate Americans want us out, but I suspect that if the President spun the veto as "they're not funding our troops!" the general population would hear that more loudly than they'd hear the Democrats' "the stupid President won't listen to the voters!"