What does "stabilization" in Iraq and Afghanistan have to do with allowing the Israeli's a terrific opportunity to take out Iran's main nuclear reactor in Natanz? Let's face it, Israel served up a nice big "grapefruit" of a pitch to Bush . . . and he "whiffed" on a tremendous opportunity.
For some reason, your statement above conveniently ignores the fact that the "Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000" was part of the Consolidated FY2001 Appropriations Act of 2001. http://www.seclaw.com/docs/fundlaw/cfma1200.htm http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2008/051908Leopold.shtml Hardly something that can be vetoed, especially given that this was the last act of the 106th Congress.
The Dems wouldn't get on board? Your knowledge base is quite poor regarding this issue. Try sticking to the FACTS my friend. It might actually give you some credibility in this Forum for a change. This probably comes as a surprise to you, but Republican Chuck Hagel (Nebraska) introduced legislation via the Senate Banking Committee to strengthen and reform Federal oversight of Fannie, Freddie, and the FHLB way back in 2003. His legislation was called the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act. http://www.swnebr.net/newspaper/cgi-bin/articles/printversion.pl?157683 Unfortunately, the Bill never came up for a vote in the Senate because there was not enough support by the GOP -run Senate. Why no support from the GOP MAJORITY run Senate? Because Freddie Mac secretly paid a REPUBLICAN consulting firm called "DCI" $2 million to spend an entire year to kill legislation that would have regulated the GSE's. Hagel and 25 other Republican's pleaded with Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist ( Tennessee ) to allow a vote, but Frist didn't see enough support for the vote and the measure died at the end of the 109th Congress. http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/10/20/news/doc48fbb1f2d0fb0996916427.txt Interestingly enough, by the time that McCain signed onto Hagel's legislation as a co-sponsonor, the "DCI" effort to sabotage such legislation had already gone on for 9 months.
Democraps, Redumblicans, both of them are the same. 1 Party system, comon guys.. this is common knowledge. Let's spend less time fighting and more time figuring out how to get these rats off our shores.