because of.... Republicans??!! While the Senate goes crazy apprently, this is what is going on in the other house. President Bush supported the bill and he and Darth apparently were calling reps urging them to vote for it. Lieberman and Susan Collins pointed out it is odd an surprising that Republicans would block such a bill supported by a Republican president who just won re-election. Dont know what that means.
We need to hit those Republicans with this. Rep Jim Sensenbrenner had an issue with immigration. Duncan Hunter had an issue dealing with military chain of command and endangerment of troops in the field. Sound familiar? Wasnt it stuff like this that they hit Jean Carnahan and Max Cleland with(I think the HS Depatrment bill had a provision that would let go some workers). I want to do something now, but I dont know what. Pelosi is already on this, pointing out this is wholely the Republicans fault, because, well, it is. This should definitely be something we run against them in two years, whether we can win their seats or not.
Update: oops, forgot a link.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6539263/. CNN was saying some of the more conservative members were concerned. So the moderates dont like Bush's policies and now some conservatives dont too? :) Oh boy. Im guess there were more opponents than Hunter and Sensenbrenner, but they dont list them.