Bush floats possibility of a yearlong continuing resolution

[sabra]

Source: The Hill

President Bush suggested Monday that he may not sign the omnibus appropriations bill that is expected to be sent to his desk later this week and said lawmakers should consider passing a one-year continuing resolution.

Even though Congress has bowed to his spending wishes, Bush warned lawmakers that he will be “watching very carefully as the Congress works through how to spend your money coming down the stretch before Christmas. They can’t have any gimmicks — accounting gimmicks — in there.”

During his speech in Fredricksburg, Va., Bush acknowledged that “we’re making some pretty good progress toward coming up with a fiscally sound budget,” but emphasized that funding for the war needs to be included without an “artificial timetable for withdrawal.”

Bush added, “If the Congress can’t get the job done — in other words, those jet fumes’ll start to be moving out … pretty soon here, later on this week — if they can’t get the job done, then I’ve got a suggestion for them, and just pass a one-year continuing resolution. That’s all they’ve got to do. If they can’t get the job done, like I’m hopeful they will, then all they’ve got to do is just take what’s called a continuing resolution, get the people’s business done that way and go on home. They’ve got to make sure they fund the troops, though, on the way out of town.”


Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bush-floats-possibility-of-a-yearlong-continuing-resolution-2007-12-17.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. But the hell with funding children's health insurance, right Bushie?

[htuttle]

2. Motherfucker wants more money for his mob buddies

Fuck'em.

[Acadia Blue]

4. You are right. Corrupt, greedy pigs who pretend to be religous and

who would kill their own children for money.

[xxqqqzme]

3. no problem, the democrats will get right on it

They certainly wouldn't want to disapppoint *. He might threaten to hold his breath.

They are rolling over even as I write this.

[Acadia Blue]

5. They should just not enable the pig from hades.

[monmouth]

6. The Senate definitely needs to stay "open"...I don't trust him at all!..n/t

[Javaman]

7. "They can’t have any gimmicks — accounting gimmicks — in there.”

You mean like the funds moron* set aside for his poppy and asshole mommy?

[rodeodance]

8. They can’t have any gimmicks — accounting gimmicks — in there.”!!! from the pot kettle!!

[donkeyotay]

9. Mishter Preshidunt, When you say, "get the people's business done"

do you mean your defense contractor buddies who did that gimmick called Iraq that left that black hole in our nation's wealth? Or is the bidness being done seeing that your telecom compadres and homeland security data miners are flush? Looking out for medicare and insurance, and helping out your poor banking buddies? Could we save a few nickles with a signing statement, and you tell congress not to bother to come back?

[Xipe Totec]

10. Another Bush floater... nt

[boricua79]

11. I hate this man...and I hate the Congress for enabling him more...

He bullies Congress to get his way...Congress bends over and takes up the booty...and then he warns Congress, "and I'd better not hear you whimper either!"

Oh my god, how I hate this arrogant man.

[saigon68]

12. And his buddy Joementum keeps on funding Cheney's War

that's never ending

[Rockerdem]

13. Empty threat for the benefit of his gullible base

The deal is already been agreed to. There won't be a veto. The government will NOT be funded only at last year's level for a full year, per continuing resolution. Guaranteed.

[Mnemosyne]

14. Whatever happened to the RICO Act?

First, the prosecution must demonstrate that the defendants were associated with an enterprise as defined in the U.S. Code 18, Section 1961(4).

The term "enterprise" is given a broad meaning under RICO. It can include any group of individuals whose association, however loose or informal, furnishes a vehicle for the commission of two or more "predicate crimes." The enterprise requires an ongoing structure of persons associated with time, joined in purpose, and organized in a manner amenable to hierarchic or consensual decision-making. It is not necessary to show that each member of the enterprise participated in or knew about all the enterprises' activities.

Second, the government must prove that the enterprise engages in, or its activities affect, interstate commerce. It is not necessary that the racketeering activities themselves directly affect interstate commerce. The enterprise need have only a minimal connection with or effect on interstate commerce. (Example: Interstate travel or the use of interstate facilities such as banks, telephones, and wire transfers for drug trafficking.)

Third, the government is required to prove that each defendant agreed to participate in the enterprise through a pattern of racketeering. A "pattern of racketeering" activity requires two or more predicate acts within a 10-year time frame, and they must be connected with each other in some logical manner for an unlawful end.

Fourth, the government must prove that each defendant agreed to participate in the affairs of the enterprise by actually committing or agreeing to commit at least two predicate offenses. The defendant need not agree to participate in or have knowledge of all the activities of the enterprise -- the defendant is criminally responsible if he (or she) is aware of the basic structure of the enterprise.

RICO includes provisions that allow prosecutors to seize criminally gained assets and provide long prison sentences -- 20 years to life.

http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive_Index/rico.html


Plenty of crimes to go around charged through RICO.

[deutsey]

15. Bush Floats Another Air Biscuit

[bedazzled]

16. just give me everything i want for the next year

and then you can go home and party?

unbelievable