Slicker Than Water By INVESTOR'S BUSIENSS DAILY
Republicans in Congress didn't desert President Bush this week for some high-minded principle. No, they joined with Democrats to hit him with his first veto override over a petty, pork-laden water bill.
"Almost every president opposes this type of bill," declared Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, one of 79 senators who helped Congress' upper house override President Bush's veto of the water bill Thursday.
That kind of shrug-your-shoulders thinking may help explain why the GOP is in the minority in Congress today.
Seen through the eyes of the scores of Republicans in the House and Senate who voted for pork over their supposed principles and their president, it wasn't big spending they approved, but, in Lott's slick words, "good, deserved, justified projects."
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