As K-Lo notes, who’s playing politics now?
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said his plan would also bolster security on trains and buses and at chemical plants, strengthen U.S. intelligence missions overseas and approve all of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations, half of which are still undone.
“Let’s see if they’ll vote against this,” said Reid, D-Nev., hoisting a thick stack of white papers.
Reid acknowledged that the port security bill, even without his additions, would be better than nothing. “But why don’t we try to improve that? And that’s my point. Try to improve it. That’s all I’m trying to do,” he said.
Dingy Harry and his Dingeocrats are walking advertisements for a Constitutional amendment. Kinda like this:
Every law, or resolution having the force of law, shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
The President may approve any appropriation and disapprove any other appropriation in the same bill. In such case he shall, in signing the bill, designate the appropriations disapproved; and shall return a copy of such appropriations, with his objections, to the House in which the bill shall have originated; and the same proceedings shall then be had as in case of other bills disapproved by the President.
Too bad the Confederate States beat us to it. See Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 20, and Article I, Section 7, Paragraph 2.