{"id":198458,"date":"2007-11-07T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/bush-water-bill-veto-overriden\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T03:09:00","slug":"bush-water-bill-veto-overriden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/bush-water-bill-veto-overriden\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Water Bill Veto Overriden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/11\/06\/congress.water.bill\/index.html\">The vote was 361-54<\/a>, and the Senate is expected to override too.<\/p>\n<p>This bill has broad bipartisan support, and big spender Bush vetoed it because he is having to pretend that he gives a damn about the budget to reinforce his own delusions of manhood.<\/p>\n<p>Why this is significant is because once he is overridden, it will become progressively easier for it to happen in the future.<\/p>\n<p>There are already reports that there is <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2007\/11\/accord_sought_on_childrens_hea.php\">an S-Chip bill that will get a veto proof majority in the works<\/a>.  It gets much harder for the Republicans to whip the vote when they have already helped override a veto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vote was 361-54, and the Senate is expected to override too. This bill has broad bipartisan support, and big spender Bush vetoed it because he is having to pretend that he gives a damn about the budget to reinforce his own delusions of manhood. Why this is significant is because once he is overridden, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1046,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}