Signs of Life

Bush just got his first veto over ride from Congress. Hopefully this is the first of many for an undeserving abysmal president, a president who is as far out of touch with the American people as is humanly possible.

Congress Hands Bush First Veto Override

President Bush suffered the first veto override of his seven-year-old presidency Thursday as the Senate enacted a $23 billion water resources bill despite his protest that it was filled with unnecessary projects.

The vote was 79-14 to pass the bill. Enactment was a foregone conclusion, but it still marked a milestone for a president who spent his first six years with a much friendlier Congress controlled by his Republican Party. Now he confronts a more hostile, Democratic-controlled legislature, and Thursday's vote showed that even many Republicans will defy him on spending matters dear to their political careers.

Congress can do much more than this.

The next project for Congress is to stop the American occupation of Iraq.