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America’s Boss

5 comments April 13th, 2007at 10:17pm Posted by Eli

Our First CEO President seems a wee bit confused about just exactly what the President’s role is supposed to be.

Consider his relationship with Congress:

The president said he was inviting Congressional leaders from both parties to meet him at the White House next week. But there was nothing in Mr. Bush’s words or tone to suggest that he envisions negotiations over the timetables for troop withdrawals from Iraq in both the House and Senate bills. Rather, Mr. Bush said, he wanted the legislators to “report on progress on getting an emergency spending bill to my desk,” and a “clean bill” with no timetables.

“When it comes to funding our troops, we have no time to waste,” Mr. Bush said, ticking off a list of problems that he said the Pentagon would encounter if the financing bill is not enacted soon. “It’s time for them to get the job done.”

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“The Democrat leaders in, Democratic leaders in Congress are bent using a bill that funds our troops to make a political statement about the war,” he told the American Legion members. “They need to do it quickly and get it to my desk, so I can veto it. And then Congress can get down to the business of funding our troops without strings and without further delay.

So, basically, the congressional leaders of the opposition party are recalcitrant employees who are behind on their deadlines, and their tough-but-fair CEO is demanding a progress report and giving them a kick in the pants to get moving.
And then there’s the media:

Last week, Bush administration officials invited senior congressional reporters to the White House and pressured them to increase their coverage of how Iraq war critics are “divided” over legislative strategy, multiple sources have confirmed with ThinkProgress.

The sources say White House officials pointed to examples of national political reporters who have highlighted such “division” and pressed the congressional reporters to follow suit. Specifically, the White House pointed to a recent AP piece on Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), which reported that Obama believes that “[i]f President Bush vetoes an Iraq war spending bill as promised, Congress quickly will provide the money without the withdrawal timeline the White House objects to.”

Once again, the preznit (through proxies this time) is giving wayward employees their marching orders.

What Dubya has never understood is, the American people are not his employees. We’re more like his shareholders. And our stock is tanking.

(Cross-posted at Greatscat)

Entry Filed under: Bush,Iraq,Politics,War