President Bush’s Last Chance: To Save Himself From His ‘Friends & Cronies’
President Bush, with Gen. David H. Petraeus, denounced an agreement by Congressional Democrats to ignore his veto threat. (photo courtesy Doug Mills/The New York Times)
I can understand the dilemma of President George W. Bush. One can blame him for everything. But no one can question Bush’s loyalty to his friends/cronies.
And he is honest about that. It does not matter to him that because of ‘them’ he has suffered in terms of reputation and credibility even at the international level.
However, Bush has got a wonderful chance to get out the clutches of his friends and cronies. Now he can always blame the Congress for standing between him and the aspirations of his friends/cronies (fs and cs).
But George W. Bush is too sincere a person – so far as his fs and cs are concerned. Here my Chinese astrology comes handy!!! In Chinese astrology he is a Fire Dog. He is most loyal to those whom he loves…and he can’t help it. (Click here to read more…) And here…
“Congressional Democrats agreed Monday to ignore President Bush’s veto threat and send him a $124 billion war spending bill that orders the administration to begin pulling troops out of Iraq by Oct. 1, says The New York Times.
“ ‘On Iraq, the American people want a new direction, and we are providing it,’ said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, a leader of the Congressional negotiators who came to terms on the legislation that has become a test of wills between Mr. Bush and the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill.
“The House and Senate are to vote on the agreement and send it to the White House by the end of the week, and Democrats expressed confidence that they could secure narrow approval. But even as they ironed out differences between House and Senate approaches to Iraq policy and cut some spending that has drawn Republican scorn, Democrats acknowledged that the bill would be rejected by the president…”
