Nancy Pelosi to sue President Bush over Iraq War Spending Bill?

Nancy Pelosi is threatening to sue president Bush over the Iraq war surrender bill.

Pelosi recently told a group of liberal bloggers, “We can take the president to court” if he issues a signing statement

“The president has made excessive use of signing statements and Congress is considering ways to respond to this executive-branch overreaching,” a spokesman for Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, said. “Whether through the oversight or appropriations process or by enacting new legislation, the Democratic Congress will challenge the president’s non-enforcement of the laws.”

In the 1970s, congressional Democrats tried to get the courts to force President Nixon to stop bombing in Cambodia. The courts ruled that dissident lawmakers could not sue solely to obtain outcomes they could not secure in Congress.

If Democrats don’t have the votes to override a presidential veto they threaten to sue the president. If Americans really sent the president a message last November, why are the Democrats afraid to cut off funding? Isn’t it the will of the people?

In the 1970’s the courts basically ruled that if congress cannot override a presidential veto than they have to live with the results.

Either cut off the funding immediately as you have the right to do, or give the troops the money they need and let the president fight the war.

Democrats can’t have it both ways.