Haven't had a chance to email you yet about NY this coming week, but I will. Can't say though, if I cn get in at any time, yet, because I have a screwed up schedule with side jobs, piercings for youngest daughter :o), and other important stuff :o) But I'll definetily give it a go. Not too often people on opposite coasts find themselves withing 50 miles of each other :o)

Take care

Green Grass and High Tides Forever

pocket veto

n.
The indirect veto of a bill received by the President within ten days of the adjournment of Congress, effected by retaining the bill unsigned until Congress adjourns.

if they let the "pocket veto" bs stand, they're finished as a viable branch of govt...as if they weren't already...err, harry?...nancy?...you paying attention  here?

of course:

...Brendan Daly, a spokesman for the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said Friday evening that the House was reserving its right to schedule an override vote anyway, arguing that the president's pocket veto was not legally viable.

Mr. Daly said House officials believed that, under their interpretation of the rules, Mr. Bush technically could not use his power to pocket veto the measure.

[ed. note: hollow rhetoric in light of the following graf]

Still, Ms. Pelosi and the majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, indicated that Democrats hoped to move swiftly to address the concerns of the White House and get the bill back to the president for his signature. The House returns on Jan. 15 and could send a revised version of the bill to the Senate by the time it returns a week later.

nyt

dataguy has a plan, but l wouldn't hold my breath.

and just to make a long comment, longer; wtf's the big deal of a couple billion in iraqi funds being frozen in american banks, when we're currently throwing $15.8b a month into that festering sandbox?

lTMF'sA

the revolution will not be televised...