Democrats expected to successfully override a Bush veto

It's not Iraq.  It's not health care.  It's a water bill.  But still, it shows that the Democrats are indeed capable of overriding a presidential veto:

The House is expected to vote overwhelmingly Tuesday to overridePresident Bush’s veto of legislation funding $23 billion worth of waterprojects, diminishing Bush’s authority as he heads into a spendingshowdown with Democrats over 12 unfinished appropriations bills, saygovernment scholars.

A House GOP aide predicted a “99.99percent” chance that the House would vote to override Bush, an outcomemade likely by the 381 votes that the Water Resources Development Act(WRDA) received before reaching the president’s desk.

Impressive.  Now go full speed ahead on the appropriations bills so we can fund the government in 2008.  Any government shutdown would be fodder for the Republicans in 2008.

 

Comments

[RJ]

Todd, two issues -- First, the Democrats are not overriding the veto, the Republicans are allowing them to overide it. Also, why should we be happy about this bill passing when it is most definitely filled with unnecessary spending (pork from both sides of the aisle) in order to coax people into voting for it?