No Override

The House failed to override Bush's veto of the pork-laden, surrender now spending bill the Democrats passed. The vote wasn't even close tothe 2/3 needed, 222-203.

The Democratic-controlled House failed Wednesday to override President Bush’s veto of an Iraqi war spending bill with timetables for troop withdrawals.

The 222-203 vote, far short of the two-thirds majority needed for a veto override, occurred just ahead of a White House meeting that Bush called to begin compromise talks with congressional leaders of both parties on new legislation to finance the war, now in its fifth year.

Micromanagement of a war by Congress is a dreadful prospect - and the Democrats should be worried about how one of their own would fare if the situation was reversed.