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Originally posted by sgtclub
Which is it? Was it not enacted because there was an impasse or for political reasons?
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The White House wanted an impasse they could use to paint Dems as soft on terrorism.
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Why does that mean there is bad intent? The two houses often disagree, though usually the dead end is the Senate not the house. Where's the smoking gun?
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If the conference committee produces a bill that looks like the House version instead of the Senate version, you'll know that the GOP Senate leadership was doing Karl Rove's bidding.
And can we agree that what the House is doing is, ipso facto, not bipartisan? If they wanted to take a bipartisan approach, they'd let the bill based on the (bipartisan) Commission's work come to a vote. But they won't. And this point, you're only bickering about whether they're principled wingnuts, as opposed to craven.
