Why start now?

Otherwise, left brain beats right brain, easy.

Hillary ad: Freeze All Foreclosures

First sensible thing she’s said in months.

So, if she said it recently, can we assume John Edwards said it a month ago?

But all of that is probably like one of Hitchcock’s maguffins. Odds are that Bush/Cheney objected to some other part(s) of the bill, or the passage of ANY Democratic Party sponsored legislation.

As I understand it, Bush is claiming both a pocket veto and normal veto, and leaving aside whether, as he claims, Congress is in recess. Either way, he is assuming liability, not “escaping” it. So, which idiot Democratic staffer said otherwise, please? Ditto for the MSM. Bush need only have signed the legislation if he hadn’t intended to obstruct it and the work of Congress. It’s his prerogative; it’s also his liability. The Democratic Party should make that abundantly clear.

Why does George Bush get to decide what kind of suits should be allowed to proceed – in Iraq?

Iraq needs to get over running to D.C. for solutions to hypothetical problems. And real problems -> hell, they’ve got a government and a court system, we don’t have a dog in this fight, imo.

“Instead, we understand that the President is bowing to the demands of the Iraqi government, which is threatening to withdraw billions of dollars invested in U.S. banks if this bill is signed.“

Yeah, that extraordinarily powerful Iraqi government that managed to get the UN to extend the US’s right to continue the occupation without consent of the Iraqi legislature as required by the provisions of its US-drafted Iraq Constitution. I wouldn’t mess with that powerful gummit either

The adjournment of the Congress has prevented my return of H.R. 1585 within the meaning of Article I, section 7, clause 2 of the Constitution. Accordingly, my withholding of approval from the bill precludes its becoming law. The Pocket Veto Case, 279 U.S. 655 (1929). In addition to withholding my signature and thereby invoking my constitutional power to “pocket veto” bills during an adjournment of the Congress, I am also sending H.R. 1585 to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, along with this memorandum setting forth my objections, to avoid unnecessary litigation about the non-enactment of the bill that results from my withholding approval and to leave no doubt that the bill is being vetoed.

Reads like word substitution magic.