White House expresses outrage & opposition toward an "irresponsible and excessive level of spending"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

House Steps Up Confrontation With Bush Over Spending

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By CARL HULSE
Published: November 7, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/washington/07cnd-spend.html



WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — A majority of House Republicans joined Democrats this evening in escalating a confrontation with President Bush over federal spending as the House overrode Mr. Bush’s veto of a popular water projects measure. House Democrats also readied a $215 billion bill to pay for health, education, labor and veterans programs despite a veto threat.

If the Senate follows suit, it would mark the first time Mr. Bush has had a veto overturned, setting the stage for the biggest clash between Congress and the White House over spending since Mr. Bush took office.

The dispute over a dozen annual spending bills is being fueled in part by 2008 political considerations. Mr. Bush and Congressional Republicans are trying to re-establish the party’s faded reputation for fiscal responsibility, while Democrats are working to portray Republicans as being out of touch with the priorities of ordinary Americans.

Mr. Bush has threatened to reject several of the already-overdue spending bills, and the Office of Management and Budget today renewed its opposition to the health and veterans package, saying it includes an “irresponsible and excessive level of spending” and improperly ties disputed domestic dollars for health, education and labor initiatives to veterans money. But Democrats said it was Mr. Bush and his Republican allies who were acting irresponsibly by resisting slight increases to pay for improvements in health care and education while simultaneously seeking nearly $200 billion in new deficit spending this year to pay for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[BrklynLib at work]

1. Excuse me...but what about the excessive spending - and fraud - going on in Iraq???

:wtf:

[hobbit709]

2. Their "Outrage" only extends to

being towards any spending not related to their war plans.

[Bitwit1234]

3. Gee those Democrats

the country is in 8 trillion dollars debt, run up by the ??Democrats in the short time they have been in office. Gee how in the hell does bush think anybody, anybody except the brain dead republicans would believe that one. He has got to be beyond delusional.