Whirled News - President Bush Angers Congress with National Intelligence Overhaul

Congressional leaders, angry at President Bush for overhauling intelligence agencies without consulting them, blasted the President today.

“He didn’t give us a chance to rubber stamp the reorganization,” said House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi. “When have we ever given the President any indication that we would stand up against any of his plans concerning immunity to telecom companies for illegally spying upon Americans, new wiretapping guidelines that significantly erode Americans’ right to privacy, and his vanishing habeas corpus?” she complained. “What does it take to convince this President that we’re full partners in letting him do whatever he wants in his efforts to erode American’s freedoms under the rubric of enhancing national security?”

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was even more blunt.

“I voted for the last FISA bill that gave the President everything he wanted,” Obama said. “And he still pulls a stunt like this. The only thing I can think of is that he’s holding Blacks to higher standards regarding trustworthiness. What does it take to prove to him that I’m no threat to his threats to individual freedoms? I’ve more than met him half-way; I’ve already moved to the right side of the middle of the road, and if I move any further, I’ll be sitting in Ann Coulter’s lap.”
Just two hours after Obama’s statement, the McCain campaign released a new commercial, showing blonde-haired women and Barack Obama promising, “I’ll be sitting in Ann Coulter’s lap.”

The President, meanwhile, denied intentionally disrespecting Congress. “If I’d taken the time to consult Congress, it would have made Vice President Cheney furious,” he said, “And no American wants to see that. I have a country to pretend to run here.”