"What you have seen is a Congress, which has been AWOL" Graham(R-SC)

[kpete]

Newly Emboldened Congress Has Dogged Bush This Year

By Jim VandeHei and Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, December 23, 2005; Page A05

After four years in which Congress repeatedly lay down while President Bush dictated his priorities, 2005 will go down as the year legislators stood up.

This week's uprising against a four-year extension of the USA Patriot Act was the latest example of a new willingness by lawmakers in both parties to challenge Bush and his notions of expansive executive power.


"What you have seen is a Congress, which has been AWOL through intimidation or lack of unity, get off the sidelines and jump in with both feet," especially on the national security front, said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.).

What is most striking is that the pushback is coming not just from Democrats and moderate Republicans, who often disagree with Bush, but also from mainstream conservatives.
Newly Emboldened Congress Has Dogged Bush This Year

By Jim VandeHei and Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, December 23, 2005; Page A05

After four years in which Congress repeatedly

[Nordmadr]

1. Link for rest of article?

[kpete]

2. here you go

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR2005122201829.html

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. The dumbness is wearing off..... oh goody. nt.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

4. They go which ever way the political winds are blowing

low approval ratings for bush was the reason for this reversal by congress. Which the people don't understand....we can get whatever we want we just have to stick together. Ninety-five percent of the wealth is in the hands of two percent of the population....it doesn't have to be that way but unfortunely there are alot more sheeple than people out there and it ain't getting any smarter out there.

[comradebillyboy]

5. the pukes who are up for reelection don't

want to follow shrub over the cliff.

[KansDem]

6. "...Don't want to follow shrub over the cliff."

Perhaps the new meaning of GOP:

Get Off the Precipice!
precipice \PRES-uh-pis\, noun:
1. A very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; a cliff.
2. The brink of a hazardous situation.