I guess ArmoredCav and I will have to worry a few more weeks to see if we will be getting enough beans, bullets, and band-aids that enable us to keep these islamic cult murderers away from the USA and US military protected members of Congress.

Shukran Nancy, for making make this war a lot tougher to fight than it needs to be.

Bush announced he would scuttle the bill with a “pocket veto” — essentially, letting the bill die without his signature 10 days after he received it, or the end of Dec. 31.

But that can happen only when Congress is not in session; otherwise, the bill becomes law without a formal veto in 10 days. And the Senate maintains it is in session by holding brief — sometimes only seconds long — meetings every two or three days with only one senator present.

The White House’s view is that Congress has adjourned.

It was unclear how the executive and legislative branches would determine whether, in fact, Bush’s lack of signature would amount to vetoing the bill or turning it into law.

“My withholding of approval from the bill precludes its becoming law,” Bush said in a statement of disapproval sent to Congress.

Hate to come anywhere near siding with the Dems, but it does strike me as odd that the White House wouldn’t have signaled its opposition to the provision so it could be fixed before the bill passed. There has to be more back story here.

I am hearing is this was a little slip in measure that was not in the original bill and as was pointed out it got slipped in with the Senate version. It was a last minute change that was not noticed until they read the final version of the bill before signing it.

What is strange is Rep. Pelosi talking about this, when it was the Senate that changed it and she also knew nothing of this provision until the President stated he was going to veto it.

What this bill showed me is how the Democrats in the House and Senate are not working together. It is why they can not get any real legislation passed when they keep doing their own thing without informing the public.

Here they had this great victory and now they have to backtrack on it which gives the dems another bite at the apple. And this time, there’s the excuse that the WH didn’t do their homework – an opening for the Democrats to work a little mischief into the bill.

Someone’s head should roll over this.

From the Thomas.gov link:

There are 7 versions of Bill Number H.R.1585 for the 110th Congress
1 . National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Introduced in House)[H.R.1585.IH]
2 . National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Reported in House)[H.R.1585.RH]
3 . National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House)[H.R.1585.EH]
4 . National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Placed on Calendar in Senate)[H.R.1585.PCS]
5 . National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Print)[H.R.1585.PP]
6 . National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Engrossed Amendment as Agreed to by Senate)[H.R.1585.EAS]
7 . National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)[H.R.1585.ENR]

It’s wrong to say that it is worse than the last Republican Congress, or any Republican Congress in the past decade.

You may want to reconsider that opinion.

Unlike the current Pelosi/Reid clownship, the last Republican congress wasn’t intent on demoralizing and cutting off funding for our troops.

It’s correct to say that the Democratic Congress doesn’t look good. It’s wrong to say that it is worse than the last Republican Congress, or any Republican Congress in the past decade.

In the Senate “Public Print”, the provision first appeared originally entitled:

SEC. 1087. JUSTICE FOR MARINES AND OTHER VICTIMS OF STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM ACT.
(a) Short Title- This section may be cited as the `Justice for Marines and Other Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism Act’.

(b) Terrorism Exception to Immunity-

(1) IN GENERAL- Chapter 97 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1605 the following:

`Sec. 1605A. Terrorism exception to the jurisdictional immunity of a foreign state

`(a) In General-

`(1) NO IMMUNITY- A foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction of courts of the United States or of the States in any case not otherwise covered by this chapter in which money damages are sought against a foreign state for personal injury or death that was caused by an act of torture, extrajudicial killing, aircraft sabotage, hostage taking, or the provision of material support or resources (as defined in section 2339A of title 18) for such an act if such act or provision of material support is engaged in by an official, employee, or agent of such foreign state while acting within the scope of his or her office, employment, or agency.

…snip..

In the final “Enrolled as Agreed to by both House and Senate” version that went to the President, that section was further modified and renumbered to 1083.

This will take you to the various versions of the bill:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.1585:

You know, big pharma, big insurance, etc., so the rest of us have to pay higher prices and higher premiums.

Since there are billions involved in Iraqi money, what better way to make a fast buck than off the US government taxpayers right?

THAT is what I’m talking about.