Bush Threatens To Veto Bloated Bill.

Source: Reuters

I guess that signing the bill will be OK as long as only Bush's special interests are getting paid for. Screw everything and everyone else.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President George W. Bush threatened on Tuesday to veto a bill to fund the war in Iraq and U.S. hurricane rebuilding after conservatives from his own party complained it was becoming bloated with special interest projects.

Bush, who has never vetoed a bill in more than five years as president, put the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on notice that he could not go along with the $106.5 billion bill it was debating.

The administration had proposed about $92 billion in emergency funds for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan and to continue rebuilding southern states hit by Hurricane Katrina.

"If the president is ultimately presented a bill that provides more than $92.2 billion, exclusive of funding for the president's plan to address pandemic influenza, he will veto the bill," a White House statement said.

Yeah, obviously some of it has to go to Katrina because, well, they've screwed that up so much already that people are likely to storm the White House lawn if something else screwy happens to them. Addressing the pandemic influenza? Another obvious--they don't want a repeat of Katrina, and they want to boast about how "ready" they are in an attempt to fix their previous screw-up.

And of course, more money for the war. Above all else, he wants to make extra sure that gets funded because it isn't like it hasn't seen enough money already.

Oh, well. Congress can just defy another veto attempt, like they did with the Dubai mess.

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