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Originally posted by sgtclub
The president now sets the timing for votes in congress? What Article of the Constitution is that in?
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Good one. I can really see Tom DeLay saying, "I'm sorry, Mr. President, despite the fact that we're in the same party and you make a strong case that scheduling this vote will help our party in the elections, I just don't think it would be constitutional to let you dictate when a matter gets called to the floor for a vote."
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He certainly co-opted DHS, but I don't see how DHS is politicizing the war.
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So you missed all the clips of Bush stumping in contested congressional districts in '02 and giving the sam speech over and over about how the Dems were against homeland security? This of course was after Dems had advanced the DHS idea in the first place and were focusing their opposition to Bush's bill on the provisions stripping civil service designations for DHS workers.* To say under those circumstances that the Dems were "against homeland security" is to me the epitome of politicizing the war on terror.
* I'm not sure I necessarily disagree with having some of the DHS workers be non-civil service, but that's a separate argument.
