{"id":5270,"date":"2007-11-08T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T19:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2007-11-08T14:08:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T22:08:48","slug":"congress-overrides-bush-veto-of-water-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5270","title":{"rendered":"Congress Overrides Bush Veto of Water Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Turns out there really is a first time<\/a> for everything:<\/p>\n

The Senate today voted overwhelmingly to override President Bush’s veto of a popular $23-billion water bill, marking the first override of a Bush veto.<\/p>\n

The bipartisan, 79-14 vote, following a House vote earlier in the week to override the veto, means the bill authorizing water projects becomes law over the president’s objections.<\/p>\n

Thirty-four Republicans joined 43 Democrats and two independents in rejecting Bush’s assertion that the bill was fiscally irresponsible and voting for the override — a reflection of their determination to preserve politically important projects for their states. Twelve Republicans and two Democrats voted no.<\/p><\/div>\n

My colleague Trish at Pensito Review suggested earlier this week<\/a> that this veto override could signal a change in the wind for Bush’s political fortunes:<\/p>\n

I’m betting that once it gets started, Congress will keep right on ripping… I think Bush miscalculated. He’s teasing the dog that’s always been tied to the tree one too many times. When the rope breaks and Congress gets a taste of blood — remembering what it feels like to be an equal participant in the governing process — who knows where it will stop?<\/div>\n

We can only hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. Turns out there really is a first time for everything: The Senate today voted overwhelmingly to override President Bush’s veto of a popular $23-billion water bill, marking the first override of a Bush veto. The bipartisan, 79-14 vote, following a House vote earlier in the week to override […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-house","category-us-senate","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}