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Pelosi calls Bush 'a total failure'
LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer
Issue date: 7/18/08 Section: NATIONAL
Only 16 percent of those surveyed thought the country was moving in the right direction, a new low as well, although statistically the same as last month's 17 percent.
Last week Reid and other Democrats dropped any pretense of trying to fight the president on battles they were likely to lose - even on the most important part of their jobs, which is passing spending bills that keep the government running.
Of the 12 annual appropriations bills, Congress is likely to pass one or two and send Bush a temporary spending fix for the rest. That would have to suffice until a new president takes office, Reid told reporters.
Privately, Democrats have said that either candidate for president - Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain - would be easier to make laws with than Bush. But Reid made clear which he'd prefer.
"I would hope that before we would leave here this year that we would do a continuing resolution that would get us (through) until after Senator Obama becomes president," he said.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
Last week Reid and other Democrats dropped any pretense of trying to fight the president on battles they were likely to lose - even on the most important part of their jobs, which is passing spending bills that keep the government running.
Of the 12 annual appropriations bills, Congress is likely to pass one or two and send Bush a temporary spending fix for the rest. That would have to suffice until a new president takes office, Reid told reporters.
Privately, Democrats have said that either candidate for president - Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain - would be easier to make laws with than Bush. But Reid made clear which he'd prefer.
"I would hope that before we would leave here this year that we would do a continuing resolution that would get us (through) until after Senator Obama becomes president," he said.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
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Robert
posted 7/18/08 @ 3:41 PM CST
Pelosi calling Bush a failure is laughable.
Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
posted 10/05/08 @ 6:23 PM CST
George W. Bush's sentence-by-sentence speaking skills are deteriorating. Apparently, this may be due to a mental illness called "presenile dementia." Bush may or may not be secretly still drinking heavily. (Continued…)
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