{"id":3825,"date":"2007-10-17T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T22:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2017-11-10T23:07:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T05:07:38","slug":"bush-i-veto-to-ensure-that-i-am-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/bush-i-veto-to-ensure-that-i-am-relevant\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush: I Veto &#8220;To Ensure That I Am Relevant&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/george-bush-picture-58-770562.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/george-bush-picture-58-770562.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/#\">TERENCE HUNT<\/a>, AP<\/p>\n<p>President Bush, weakened by record-low poll ratings, asserted he is still politically relevant and scolded the Democratic-led Congress on Wednesday for having &#8220;little to show for all the time that has gone by.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trying to shape the political debate, Bush used a midmorning news conference to lecture lawmakers about their failure to complete action on any spending bills to keep the government running or to send him legislation dealing with education, housing and other matters.<\/p>\n<p>Saying he did not share any blame for Congress&#8217; failure to act, Bush said, &#8220;I think it is their fault that bills aren&#8217;t moving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With his presidency in its final 15 months, his approval ratings at just 31 percent in the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll and Democrats running Congress, Bush has little clout to push his own agenda through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TERENCE HUNT, AP President Bush, weakened by record-low poll ratings, asserted he is still politically relevant and scolded the Democratic-led Congress on Wednesday for having &#8220;little to show for all the time that has gone by.&#8221; Trying to shape the political debate, Bush used a midmorning news conference to lecture lawmakers about their failure to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-related-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bush: I Veto &quot;To Ensure That I Am Relevant&quot; &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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