What Gary?? Bush flip flops !!! <br><br>I thought that was Kerry's job? <br><br>Only problem is Dubya has had flippers on for years... <br>Rove covered his tracks. er...well til lately... ole Carl hhas been very busy covering his own azz !!<br> <br><br>David (OFI)<br>

Popularity isn't the only issue here either. Military appropriations is the only real way either house of Congress can have oversight over the Iraq War effort, an effort that has been compromised by the President's authorization of torture. That rationale is simple enough to understand completely on its own.<br><br>-- Charlie Alpha Roger Yankee Whiskey

I can't find what you read in that Times article, but only the House has approved the bill with the ANWR drilling in it.<br><br>Here's an article from Tuesday's Washington Post<br><blockquote>Senate leaders were trying to bring the two bills to a final vote tomorrow, but lawmakers warn that passage is far from certain...<br><br>Drilling opponents will try first to strip the ANWR provision by asserting that it flouts Senate rules against unrelated legislation on spending bills. If that fails, members from both parties are raising the politically risky prospect of a filibuster that would take 60 votes to break.</blockquote><br><br>

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>McCain's torture bill has a huge margin of support<p><hr></blockquote><p>Well that's because the McCain bill language is so open to interpretation.......<br><br>Is leather, handcuffs and whips degrading or innocent fun? Ask the guy coming out of a bordello and he'd probably pick the latter!!<br>I hear in some cultures that shouting at someone is considered cruel.<br><br>The thing is (each one of) you have a different gradient of what you consider to be cruel, what you consider to be degrading.<br><br><br>This last year the Texas legislature tried to pass a bill to outlaw suggestive cheerleader dances in school cheerleading groups. The trouble is that the courts pointed out you cannot enforce such a law because there is no definition of the term "suggestive dancing".<br><br>And you cannot enforce something with the phrase "I can't define it but I know it when I see it"<br><br><br>- This is gonna get pretty interesting. <br>- Define "interesting". <br>- Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die..<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Llewelyn on 12/20/05 07:23 AM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>

Survey shows unwanted births up<br>San Jose Mercury News - 18 hours ago<br>ATLANTA - More American women are having babies they didn't want, a survey indicates, but federal researchers say they don't know if that means attitudes about abortion are changing. US women of childbearing ... <br>NATION IN BRIEF Washington Post<br>Federal Survey Shows Rate Of Unwanted Pregnancies Up All Headline News<br>Kansas City Star - WBIR-TV - Washington Post - all 298 related »<br><br>catch the connection yet?<br><br>Oh yeah, obsolete polluting machines and greed.<br>That too.<br><br>http://theoilfactor.com<br>IN YO FACE.<br>http://67.102.216.94/backup/theoilfactorcom/public_html/frames/home-68-1.htm<br><br>odd that site is not so good w/safari<br>had ta explore it<br><br>:P<br><br>paaaayce<br><br>

Yep, I wasn't right on that. The resolution attached the item to the bill. The Senate is yet to vote on the bill. If that's correct, is it just a little less sucky?<br><br>http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/122005/news1.html<br><br>

No, it sucks completely. And that roar of jets you hear over head . . .<br><br><br>Cheney races home as Senate budget vote nears<br><br><br>[color:blue] A Senate vote on a deficit-reduction bill looks to be so tight that Vice President Dick Cheney was rushing home Tuesday from an overseas diplomatic mission to be the tiebreaker for saving one of the Bush administration’s top priorities.</font color=blue><br><br><br><br><br>[color:blue]And I'm the one that jaded you . . .</font color=blue>

" Cheney races home!!"<br><br>Dick-head to the rescue !! ppbt !<br><br>is he the new Tom DeLay?<br><br>David (OFI)<br>

Well, if the vote is tight enough, they'll certainly de-lay the vote till Cheney gets there <br><br>. . . . . Here's lookin' at [color:red]you</font color=red> kid.