I've been wanting to learn more about the farm bill, which President Bush vetoed this week, but like so many issues at the federal level, I just haven't made the time for it.
But I do know that when a clearly intelligent, self-described left-leaning liberal and Widespread Panic fan in Colorado agrees with President Bush on an issue, something is amiss.
He's got a good blog name, too.
I know the subsidies are good for Georgia farmers, and that it includes food stamp increases the left wanted, and this is an election year. But at what point does good for this state, and that state, and that state over there, add up to bad for America, to say nothing of the world's hungry?
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I say that anytime the President's veto can be overridden with such ease that he is wrong, not the masses of the American people. Why spend billions on a war overseas and not a little to help the people at home. But, that's just my opinion.
It absolutely could mean that. Or, it could mean that the bill was so overloaded with pork, spread out over so many congressional districts that it reached a critical mass of representatives and senators who couldn't afford to vote against it.
That explanation, of course, requires President Bush to be right. So I can see how you'd reject it.
Come on has Bush been right about anything?
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