Democrats Humiliated by Bush 18% Approval Worst Ever

by mpress | December 20, 2007 at 05:56 am

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The Huffington Post Headline says it all.
Whoever thought the 2006 election was a vote to get out of Iraq may
have been wrong. The Dems failed at everything. George Bush in the last
year of his term got everything he wanted. How the hell did that happen?

Unable to garner enough votes from their own party, House Democratic leaders had to turn to Republicans to win passage of a $555 billion domestic spending bill after the Senate appended $70 billion to it for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The war funding passed 272 to 142, with Democrats voting 141 to 78 against it.

The Democratic leaders again had to appeal to Republicans to win passage of a measure to stave off the growth of the alternative minimum tax, because fiscally conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats were in open revolt and refused to go along. The Blue Dogs insisted that the Senate offset the bill’s cost with tax increases on hedge-fund and private-equity managers.

Source: WP