Capitol Pee-Pee

The kids are at it again...

Cut and pasted from Brian Knowlton's piece in the New York Times:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 - President Bush lashed out at Congress today, the third time he has done so in two weeks, this time saying the House had wasted time on “a constant string of investigations” and the Senate had similarly wasted its efforts by trying to rein in the Iraq war. Its failure to send a single annual appropriations bill to his desk, he said, amounted to “the worst record for a Congress in 20 years.” He urged Congress to act on defense-funding legislation and on a compromise on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or S-CHIP.

As he spoke, Mr. Bush was flanked by two senior Republicans, Representative John Boehner of Ohio, the minority leader, and Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri, the minority whip. The three had emerged from a meeting in the East Room of the House Republican Conference, and perhaps reflecting the campaign season under way, the president’s words took on a partisan edge.

Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, responded sharply to the president’s criticisms.

“The president calls Congressional oversight that has uncovered tens of billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq a ‘waste of time.’ We call billions spent in no-bid contracts to Halliburton a waste of money,” she said in a statement released by her office.

“Instead of criticizing Congress,” Mrs. Pelosi continued, “the president’s time would be better spent working in a bipartisan way to end this disastrous war in Iraq, keep our promises to our veterans by providing the largest veterans’ health care investment in history, and providing health care for 10 million children.”

The full story can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/washington/30cnd-policy.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin#

Whatever valid initiatives either party tries to pass, usually gets lost in the shuffle of partisan bickering. I liken the most recent exchange between Bush and Pelosi to two little kids sitting in a sandbox, drinking juiceboxes, while little Nancy screams, "Teacher, George peed his pants again!"