# Lying Festering Maggots! (Bushiviks!) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 14, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-festering-maggots-bushiviks/400116 "2007-04-14T15:49:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-festering-maggots-bushiviks/400116/81 "2007-04-16T21:38:40Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] BTW, **Carol,** you’re welcome to post in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=416810) IMHO thread. [/QUOTE] Strike that. The thread’s been locked. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-festering-maggots-bushiviks/400116/82 "2007-04-17T02:21:28Z")
> [@](#): > > The will of the people is that President Bush is the CIC, not Nancy Pelosi, not Harry Reid, nor any of the other 535 nitwits in Congress. Checks and balances are a harsh bitch. There are systems of government out there where one guy gets to do whatever he wants without anyone standing in his way. Fortunately, the US doesn’t have one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-festering-maggots-bushiviks/400116/83 "2007-04-17T02:54:52Z")
[QUOTE=DoctorJ] There are systems of government out there where one guy gets to do whatever he wants without anyone standing in his way. Fortunately, the US doesn’t have one of those. [/QUOTE] Sure, but **Carol** can keep hoping, can’t she? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-festering-maggots-bushiviks/400116/84 "2007-04-17T04:54:54Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Does she think that funds for the war will be _removed_ in conference? [/QUOTE] No, I don’t, but that’s part of what makes the Dems all the more pathetic. If they’re truly against the war, why don’t they vote to cut off funding entirely? Instead, we get a pork bill to entice their more recalcitrant members to vote FOR the funding. Peanut storage, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-festering-maggots-bushiviks/400116/85 "2007-04-17T05:27:47Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] No, I don’t, but that’s part of what makes the Dems all the more pathetic. If they’re truly against the war, why don’t they vote to cut off funding entirely? [/QUOTE] Then morons like you would be calling them traitors and accusing them of hanging the troops out to dry. The problem is that even if the Democrats knew they could implement whatever policy they wanted, with no opposition, the chimp in the White House has turned the whole Iraq thing into such a clusterfuck that simply withdrawing funding wouldn’t be an option. The Democrats don’t actually want more American troops to end up dead, no matter what Republican insinuations you are stupid enough to believe. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-festering-maggots-bushiviks/400116/86 "2007-04-17T11:20:11Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] If they’re truly against the war, why don’t they vote to cut off funding entirely? [/QUOTE] If Bush truly supported the troops, he would sign the bill that provides funding for the war. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-festering-maggots-bushiviks/400116/87 "2007-04-17T14:03:55Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] No, I don’t, but that’s part of what makes the Dems all the more pathetic. If they’re truly against the war, why don’t they vote to cut off funding entirely? Instead, we get a pork bill to entice their more recalcitrant members to vote FOR the funding. Peanut storage, anyone? [/QUOTE] That herring is now bright, fire engine red. Pork in the bill has nothing whatever to do with GW’s opposition to it. He’s signed Iraq supplemental funding bills containing pork hand over fist without a peep. Real slowly now … ```auto **It's the deadline.** ``` ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-festering-maggots-bushiviks/400116/88 "2007-04-17T15:18:19Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] No, I don’t, but that’s part of what makes the Dems all the more pathetic. If they’re truly against the war, why don’t they vote to cut off funding entirely? Instead, we get a pork bill to entice their more recalcitrant members to vote FOR the funding. Peanut storage, anyone? [/QUOTE] :dubious: And when was the last war budget that was not loaded with extraneous pork? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-festering-maggots-bushiviks/400116/89 "2007-04-17T15:53:17Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] Peanut storage, anyone? [/QUOTE] Are you volunteering your empty skull? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-festering-maggots-bushiviks/400116.md?page=4)