Brendan Nyhan

Bush: “Political statements” bad (from Dems)

The AP highlights another passage from President Bush’s Wall Street Journal op-ed today:

President Bush, facing a Democratic-controlled Congress for the first time, is urging lawmakers to work with his administration and warning that “political statements” in the form of legislation would result in a stalemate.

Bush, of course, has never pushed legislation with no chance of passage as a political statement. Oh, wait