Posted by
arandomguy on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:33:39 PM
"The president is inviting us down to the White House with preconditions. That's not the way things should operate," he said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He’s never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted. He had a big rubberstamp here up on Capitol Hill, whatever he wanted, they stamped OK. That's not the way it is now."
This is a quote by Harry Reid, speaking about a Bush offer to invite him to the white house to discuss Iraq war funding. Harry Reid has said that if Bush vetoes this bill for funding, Reid will come back with a bill that cuts off funding for the troops as of March 1, 2008 (which will clearly never pass, or get around a veto). Harry Reid alleges that the offer to meet and compromise comes with "preconditions."
I haven't yet figured out what these "preconditions" are, but I assume they are a willingness to compromise, debate, and not abandon our troops and country.
...... No wonder Harry Reid isn't showing up.