The "It's hard work!" Republicans block 9/11 bill: "It's hard to reform".

WASHINGTON - House Republicans on Saturday blocked passage of legislation addressing the Sept. 11 Commission's terror-fighting recommendations to President Bush, but GOP leaders said they would press the effort later this year.

However, the failure to get an agreement in Congress' postelection session most likely means the legislation will die for the year.

"It's hard to reform. It's hard to make changes," Speaker Dennis Hastert said as House members left town after a rare weekend session.

Democrats immediately blamed House Republicans. "The decision to pull the 9/11 bill is a clear and unambiguous failure by House Republicans to protect our nation, who chose ideology over our nation's well being," said House Democratic Caucus chairman Bob Menendez of New Jersey.

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..."It's HARD" from the repukes. It's fucking WORK! It's not supposed to be easy (no matter what rich daddy let you believe growing up).

:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

Democrats need to speak out LOUDLY on this failure of the Repugs to pass this bill and the Repugs lack of comittment to improve security of our "Homeland". I hate that term, sounds so...hmmmm.....I don't know....nazi-esque.

What the hell's wrong with these people??? That would mean we wouldn't live in fear to facilitate the next election, the defense industry might not make such big profits, the oil industry would never see $100/bbl oil, and OBL might not get another deal with Bushco to make videos. What the hell are people thinking wanting to implement the 9/11 commission report? Welcome to Bush's Amerrika.

...."Our members want us to continue, the speaker wants us to continue to negotiate and so does the Senate, so we're going to continue to negotiate and see if we can get a bill in December," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

Delay said that Reps. Duncan Hunter, R-California, and James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, had not agreed to a compromise reached earlier Saturday and he wanted their approval before the House moved forward.

Hastert said Hunter had concerns that shifting some intelligence operations from the Pentagon could hurt combat troops. Hastert said lawmakers want to "make sure that our men and women who serve this country have the real-time intelligence that they need.".......


But critics led by Hunter said the bill would interfere with the chain of military command and potentially place troops at risk in combat. Other opponents, including Sensenbrenner, were unhappy that the bill did not go further to change immigration laws.....

And as we know, they are so "safe" now. After all, Bush promised Pat Robertson there would be NO casualties.