hey fitz, if we don't hear from you before T'giving, have a good one.
 

From bloggingformichigan:

Bush Saved From Embarrassment
by: Kathy
Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 15:46:23 PM EST

George Bush sends a big thank you to Dave Camp, Peter Hoekstra, Joe Knollenberg, Thad McCotter, Mike Rogers, and Timothy Walberg for helping him save face at the expense of our nation's workers, veterans and children.

House Republicans on Thursday night narrowly sustained President Bush's veto of a Democratic health and education spending bill.

The 277-141 vote was uncomfortably close for Republicans, falling just two votes short of the two-thirds tally required to overturn Bush's veto. But as they did on three previous occasions, GOP leaders managed their ranks to make sure Bush would not be embarrassed.

I guess those men decided our country - and Michigan - didn't need the critical funding that bill would have provided for these domestic programs:

$3.4 billion for state unemployment insurance and employment services

$340 million to strengthen mine safety protections

$183 million to enforce wage and hour laws

$37 billion for school districts across America

$16.4 billion to lower the costs of student loans

$2 billion for affordable, high-quality child care for low-income families

$7 billion for Head Start programs

$2.2 billion for community health centers


Michigan citizens are the ones who should be embarrassed. We're being represented by men who put one man - the president - ahead of the needs of people here in our state and across the country. They need to get their priorities straight. They don't work for the president, they work for us.