Bill on Iraq to Be Delivered 4 Years After Bush’s Words (elaborate political theater)

Source: nytimes



May 1, 2007
Bill on Iraq to Be Delivered 4 Years After Bush’s Words
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JEFF ZELENY

WASHINGTON, April 30 — Democratic leaders in Congress are planning a special ceremony on Tuesday afternoon to send President Bush a bill that sets timetables for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
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The Democrats’ ceremony, featuring the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is part of the elaborate political theater at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue surrounding the Iraq spending bill, which is destined to produce only the second veto of Mr. Bush’s presidency.

But with Mr. Bush planning to spend Tuesday in Florida talking with military commanders, the White House was being coy on Monday about what kind of theatrics of his own — if any — he might stage. Democrats, however, said they expected the veto to come Wednesday.

Mr. Bush’s spokesman, Tony Snow, said, “We’ll make clear what we intend and how we intend to do it at the proper time.”

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