Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Bases
I find this amusing, via Matt Yglesias:
PERMANENT BASES. Now here's a real sign of the President's burgeoning lame duckedness: The Senate actually approved an amendment from Joe Biden preventing the administration from using funds from the Iraq supplemental appropriation for the construction of permanent bases.
Who in their right mind, who has paid any attention to the past 6 years, thinks that Congress putting a limit on Presidential power will actually, like, mean anything?

If Bush wants permanent bases in Iraq, he'll build them. It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission, and Congress won't do anything no matter what Bush does.
Written at 9:51 AM by Greyhair.
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