Big Muddy rancher
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Harry and Nancy weren't so supportive. 
reader (the Second) said:Yes, I like that BMR. I like the fact that the Congress and Executive branch are not in lockstep. The conservative Republican conference in DC this week is saying that this was what was wrong with the Bush administration that the GOP congressional leaders kowtowed to the executive office.
How refreshing frankly.
On MSNBC right now, Rachel Maddow anchoring: Barney Frank is holding an impromptu press conference to announce that House Republicans have essentially bailed on the bailout process, trying to interject instead their completely new plan.
It's just weird seeing House Dems insisting that they want to work on the plan President Bush asked for (to make it halfway decent), and Republicans blasting it out of the water.
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats and the Bush administration inched closer to a deal Wednesday morning on a taxpayer rescue of the American automobile industry.
The auto bailout bill was blocked by Senate Republicans, but Mr. Bush then reversed course and announced that he would use financial bailout money to aid the auto manufacturers.
Obama has made clear his military priority is Afghanistan and said he will send 17,000 additional troops there to bolster efforts to turn back an intensifying Taliban insurgency.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), speaks at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, May 15, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio.
Sen. John McCain predicted today that the Iraq war would be won and most American troops would come home if he is elected president, joining his Democratic rivals for the first time in offering a timeline for a large-scale military withdrawal.
McCain said only a small contingent of troops, in non-combat roles, would remain in Iraq five years from now. He said the drawdown would be possible because al-Qaeda in Iraq would be defeated and a democratic government would be operating in the war-torn country,... But the speech he gave this morning envisioned an America that, by 2013, "has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq war has been won."
By that time, McCain said, "the United States maintains a military presence" in Iraq, "but a much smaller one, and it does not play a direct combat role."
But more recently, Obama has said he will remove all combat brigades from Iraq within 16 months of becoming president and will leave "some troops" in Iraq to protect U.S. embassy personnel there and carry out targeted strikes on terrorists.
hypocritexposer said:I read today that Obama took the advice of the Military and extended the timeline for withdrawal by 3 months.
Why did he not take their advice for the full number of requested troops for Afghanistan?