Bush Says Dems In Congress Are Failing

President Accuses Legislative Majority Of Not Living Up To Their Duties

(AP)  President Bush accused Democratic lawmakers on Saturday of being unable to live up to their duties, citing Congress' inability to pass legislation to fund the federal government.

"Democrats are failing in their responsibility to make tough decisions and spend the people's money wisely," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "This moment is a test."

The White House has said the failure of a broad immigration overhaul was proof that Democratic-controlled Capitol Hill cannot take on major issues. "We saw this with immigration, and we're seeing it with some other issues where Congress is having an inability to take on major challenges," said spokesman Tony Fratto.

The main reason the immigration measure died, however, was staunch opposition from Bush's own base — conservatives. The president could not turn around members of his own party despite weeks of intense effort.

The immigration bill was the top item on Bush's domestic agenda. With its demise, Bush was left to focus on the annual appropriations process and reining in federal spending.

Twelve annual spending bills dole out approximately one-third of the federal budget. They must be passed each year by Congress, before the Oct. 1 start of the new fiscal year, but lawmakers began considering this year's batch just in mid-June. The House has passed half and the full Senate has not yet taken up any.

"Democrats have a chance to prove they are for open and transparent government by working to complete each spending bill independently and on time," Bush said. "I urge Democrats in Congress to step forward now and pass these bills one at a time. "

Democratic leaders say they are behind because an emergency spending measure funding the war in Iraq came first. They also had to pass an omnibus measure cleaning up last year's appropriations mess. Then, the Republicans who then controlled Congress failed to pass into law a single spending bill for domestic agencies save the Homeland Security Department — a situation that brought little complaint from Bush.

With the Senate and House now in Democratic hands, this year's bills are producing skirmishes with the White House that also are causing delays. Almost every domestic bill already has attracted a veto threat because it exceeds Bush's proposed budget in certain areas.

All told, Democrats plan spending increases for annual agency budgets of about $23 billion above the White House budget request. Bush put it in terms of a five-year outlook, and said their budget plan would be $205 billion bigger than his over that period, and would include "the largest tax increase in history" by allowing some of his tax cuts to expire as planned.

The president said Democrats are embracing "the failed tax-and-spend policies of the past," and vowed to stand firm for fiscal restraint. Republican lawmakers have pledged to support him and sustain any vetoes.

"No nation has ever taxed and spent its way to prosperity," Bush said. "And I have made it clear that I will veto any attempt to take America down this road."

The president also applauded a new jobs report, which showed employers adding 132,000 jobs, paychecks growing solidly and the unemployment rate staying at a low 4.5 percent in June.

Bush said the evidence that the once listless economy is regaining energy is a result of his insistence on lowering taxes and spending.

"Democratic leaders in Congress want to take our country down a different track," he said.

[kansas1946]

AP) President Bush accused Democratic lawmakers on Saturday of being unable to live up to their duties, citing Congress' inability to pass legislation to fund the federal government.
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LMAO. Ain't this guy pitiful??

[jbb333]

The Worst President Ever tells the Democratic Party -- who just gave his Republican Party "A Thumpin'" -- that he doesn't like the way they're doing their jobs????????

They got their job just bearly six months ago.
He got his job well over six years ago.

It's going to take the next eight years to undo the damage that this incompetence fool and his merry band of foolsters has heaped on our nation.

What an idiot.

[antoniof123]

screen_name_ the reason why congress has such a low approval rating is becasue of the GOP the country feels as though they are the worst and by the way George does get stuff it just doesn't meet his endless war needs I am tired of paying for it. I know that by the time you GOP neo cons realize it the 2008 elections will be here and it is going to be a real blood bath for them. Already look at the rats jumping ship. You clowns pick a great time to start jumping ship too bad that after 2008 you won't have to jump off any more.

[name_verify]

DNC News Update

Pelosi's congress hit 15% approval rating.

Pelosi apologizes for being political prostitute of SF queer lobby.

Promises not to wear big jewelry and blink into the camera so much.

Phones to Cindy Sheehan and leaves heartfelt message on voice mail.

[realpatriot1]

infidel_US,

Did this "interesting read" have any facts to back up its "thoughts", or was it like all the right wing posts here. Totally devoid of facts to back up the garbage talk.

[l8c6]

I will clarify, the neo con fascists don't like rules that apply to them. Rules go against free market they say but in a twist they display a double standard in that they impose far more laws and restrictions on the masses.

Bush executes without giving it a second thought the underprivileged criminals and pardons the privileged well connected criminals.

Bush said it's a whole lot easier being dictator so long as he's the dictator. His incompetence exposed the minds of the right wing fascists running the U.S.

[l8c6]

The free market works for the ones that win the free market. The free market is a game of monopoly. Winner takes all. There are far more losers in the proposed free market. Economic, financial sociopaths don't like rules as the tattooed freak in Utah who shot the prison guard a few weeks back doesn't like rules.

Milton Friedman the neo con fascist economist said government should only be in the business of providing security. Katrina is an example of the kind of security that will be afforded the most vulnerable in the world of the right wing.

The kings of old european society were right wing authoritarians. What the neo con autocratic corporatist rule looks for in the masses are subservient lemmings.

[l8c6]

lars008: You couldn't think of anything factual so you just attempted to put a right wing spin on everything pointed out about the right wing fascists who have brought tremendous harm to the U.S.?

Actually Bush has done us a favor. An insidious right wing fascist attack on our representative government has been underway for a number of decades and a large number of american people for various reasons have bought the BIG LIE.

These fascists have been supporting dictators in latin american countries for decades with U.S. funds. The american people have been grossly ignorant to not think their turn was going to come. Bush's incompetence exposed the right wing neo con fascist movement but it still hasn't sunk in deep enough. There is still far too much ignorance, apathy and fear amongst americans.

[gracchus1]

Bush never finished his sentence, which should read "The Democrats in Congress are failing as am I."

[l8c6]

I can tell the lying sack of S*hi*t Bush that I have been more prosperous taxing myself and paying off my mortgage to the end of its term as opposed to borrowing money to pay it off.

REPUBLICANS borrow and Spend, borrow and spend, borrow and spend. And WHO does that benefit in interest payments? His cronies who OWN the "U.S. federal treasury" and China and any of the other array of lender crony friends the Bush man has as his constituents. This man is one heckuva crook...sadly, he's just the tip of the iceberg of criminals that are running the U.S.

[infidel_us]

"According to academic studies," Lott says, "from 1972 to 1996, on average, 80 percent of felons would have voted Democratic. An overwhelming 93 percent ostensibly would have voted for Bill Clinton in 1996."

Excerpt from John Lott's new book, "Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't."

He goes on to explain:

%u2014 Women shouldn't vote: "What changed ... that explains the growth of government? The answer is women's suffrage."

%u2014 Fox News Channel isn't conservative: "Even employees of Fox News, which is widely regarded as a conservative channel, donate 81 percent of their contributions to Democrats."

%u2014 Public schools are government re-education camps: "(P)ublic education was actually designed to spread government-approved values."

%u2014 Nothing good has come from abortion: "(A)bortion, in fact, increases crime."

A VERY interesting read!

[gunownerdan]

The dirty democrats and rotten republicans are destroying America.
The sheep will follow!

[huskerarmy]

The biggest thing the Dems are failing at is getting enough votes to override this sorry excuse of a president. That will change...

[huskerarmy]

The biggest thing the Dems are failing at is getting enough votes to override this sorry excuse of a president. That will change...

[lars008-2009]

ARE PRESIDENTS ABOVE THE LAW???

wow, the president says he has the right to perjury????

President to Senate: Perjury is my right...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199901/ai_n8836610

PARDONS FOR SALE PARDONS FOR SALE

PARDONS GRANTED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON
http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/clintonpardon_grants.htm
My Reasons for the Pardons
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/opinion/18CLIN.html?pagewanted=all&ei=5070&en=66ba82eaf117b24b&ex=1183521600
In a bone-chilling chapter of her new book "The Final Days," late heroine-author Barbara Olson warned that ex-president Bill Clinton's pardons of terrorists who had repeatedly bombed buildings in New York City "send a signal" that the U.S. isn't serious about fighting terrorism.
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/olson.htm

Bill Clinton pardons controversy
FALN Pardons of 1999
On August 11 1999, Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of FALN, a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off 120 bombs in the United States usually in New York City and Chicago, convicted for conspiracies to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well as for firearms and explosives violations.
http://www.answers.com/topic/bill-clinton-pardons-controversy

[lars008-2009]

demonic-rats: USA's Military Industrial Complex Party
demonic-rats: Practices the Ideology of Fascism
demonic-rats: Bought and paid for by CORPORATE AMERICA!
demonic-rats: a Regional Southern Party
demonic-rats: #1 reason USA dependent on foreign oil.
demonic-rats: Policies create the SUV!
demonic-rats: Marijuana the same drug as Heroin.
demonic-rats: No oversight of BIG TOBACCO!
demonic-rats: Alcohol GOOD, marijuana BAD!
demonic-rats: JUST SAY NO TO STEM CELLS RESEARCH!
demonic-rats: the FRUIT & NUTT CASE party!
demonic-rats: "PEDOPHILES R US"
demonic-rats: the "WE HATE YOUR FREEDOM" party
demonic-rats: US Constitution only a piece of paper
demonic-rats: Cronyism over competence!
demonic-rats: 40 % prefer Nazi style GOV.
demonic-rats: Support needless Military bases across USA!
demonic-rats: Perjury/Obstruction of Justice Party!
demonic-rats: Avg. IQ of 89!
demonic-rats: $8.9 TRILLION National Debt!
demonic-rats: $500 BILLION annual Interest on US Debt.
demonic-rats: the CNN FAKE News channel Party
demonic-rats: NO Bid Contract Party
demonic-rats: LLC (Limited Liablity Corporation) Zero Accountability Corporation!
demonic-rats: USA's FRAUD, WASTE and ABUSE Party!
demonic-rats: the one issue voter party.
demonic-rats: the me, myself, and I party
demonic-rats: Illegal Wiretaps of American's
demonic-rats: Israel over America Party
demonic-rats: FEAR MONGERING Party
demonic-rats: Contempt for the Laws of the USA
demonic-rats: War on the American People

[briannorwood]

Democrats in Congress failing? And this from the worst president in history?

Here's news for you, Dumbya...you have already failed. You are nothing more than an irrelevant obstructionist.

You will leave office soon, and you won't be missed.

[bigal321321]

The real problem here is that too many people are basing our congress and president on the past. Let's say, WWII values. With the amount of corruption that has run rampant (particularly in recent years) on both sides of the isle means the whole mess is screwed. I'm not really sure we have reached the point of no return or not. The USA used to be a government that others looked up to, now it's a joke. We really need one of these parties to admit just how fubar it is and clean house. I wait now for hell to freeze over.

[stevie571]

The Democrats were in control of the Senate from May 24, 2001 to January 2003 after Senator Jeffords left the Republican party. During this time the authorization for the Iraq war was passed.

[afmca]

What an absolute idiot. Republicans were in office - in total power - for 6 years and they could not pass budget resolutions, monitor Bush's criminal activity, or pass immigration reform. The REPUBLICANS defeated your immigration bill; not the Democrats. Bush absolutely astounds me with his ignorance. If he is playing to the party base or they that STUPID to be fooled by his insanity!