See if you can make sense of this horseshit served up by the Washington Post:
"Victories in Congress carry costs for Bush" by Jonathan Weisman/Washington Post December 16, 2007
WASHINGTON - As Congress stumbles toward Christmas, President Bush is scoring victory after victory over his Democratic adversaries.
He has beaten back domestic spending increases, thwarted an expansion of children's health insurance coverage, defeated tax hikes, won funding for the Iraq war, and pushed Democrats toward shattering their pledge not to add to the federal deficit with new tax cuts or rises in mandatory spending.
And that has cost him how?
He has GOTTEN EVERYTHING HE HAS WANTED -- like a good dictator would -- with NO ACCOUNTABILITY!!!
So HOW has he lost, and why is the WP SHOVELING SUCH SHIT?
White House officials, and virtually every other Republican in Congress, are not about to apologize.
Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee:
"The Democrats are learning this isn't the early 1970s, when the Republican Party was Gerald Ford and 140 of his friends. There are 201 of us, and we will be heard."
That's strange.
When the DemocraPs were a minority just a few years ago, I heard nothing from them.
In his first six years in office, Bush accepted domestic discretionary spending increases from Republican-controlled Congresses that averaged 7 percent a year, said Brian Riedl, a conservative budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
In his showdown with the current Democratic Congress, the president is insisting on spending growth of 4 percent at most. He stood his ground, first against $22 billion in additional domestic spending, then against $11 billion.
Yeah, thanks asshole!
Thanks for vetoing the programs the public needs, and fucking us on the $$$!
Week after week, the president has demanded nearly $200 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, without tax increases or spending cuts. If the president prevails on all three fronts, he will end up adding roughly $239 billion to the federal deficit this fiscal year.
What does he care, as long as he gets his war money and drops this miserable occupation in someone else's lap, right?
So he's lost how, Post?
As Democrats shuffle funds to meet Bush's bottom line, the White House also is likely to lose half of the $3 billion the president requested for his Millennium Challenge Corp., an effort to increase development assistance to some poor nations. Bush's program to resume the reprocessing of nuclear waste will be cut dramatically.
So what? What does he care?
He has made it clear he holds the American people in contempt, which is the same way we hold him!
A $579 million increase for math and science instruction under the No Child Left Behind initiative will be cut, and first lady Laura Bush's Reading First program will be reduced, Democratic aides said Friday. Bush's victory against much of the Democrats' energy bill also came at a price.
Pffffft!
A comprehensive energy bill will be signed into law, but the president defeated $21 billion in revenue increases that would have paid for tax incentives to support renewable energy, conservation and other programs that he has vocally supported."
So Bush is a fucking back-stabbing, asshole liar.
So what? That's a loss?
Don't forget to Sig Heil, Post!
