Hubris Sonic is right.
Pick up your telephone. Call your Senator and Congressman NOW.
Make noise. This can not stand.
Amazingly, the Chimpster is right this time. The Senate is in seesion but The House is not. Since the authorization bill originated in The House, he is correctly returning it there. And they're not in session.
any more news on a coordinated campaign from the grassroots on this?
The origin of the bill is probably irrelevant. The Congress is still in session, even if only one house of Congress is in session.
The origin is relevant, because the language regarding veto'ing bills talks about sending it back to the house it came from.
It's the Constitution and the Congress that are irrelevant now. Bush and his puppet masters have realized that they can do whatever they want, and to hell with the law.
When are these people going to learn?
They're not, which is part of the larger problem we face.
Even conceding the validity of the pocket veto, There certainly should be enough political hay for the Democrats to harvest if they would only emerge from their holiday stupor, find what's left of their spines in the back of the coat closet and start a major media blitz detailing how much Bush hates the troops.
It ain't rocket science, it's just hitting back. Hard.
Now wait just a gosh dang darned second there fella!
Just because Pelosi spoke like a moron, does not mean that if bush makes an recess appointment it will be approved.
Myself, I figure that both democrats and republicans are owned by the same lobby money (both business and AIPAC) and that really, in foreign policy, there is nary a difference there.
But what do I know, I am just an idiot.
"When are these people going to learn? The Whitehouse has some very smart scumbags working for them and we have to fight them tooth and nail, every day."
-Well, it helps Bush that Pelosi & Reid are cowardly, stupid fucks who are dead set in protecting a mountain range of dry powder.
Maybe the Vichy Dems are thinking "the worse, the better"--they let the GOP fuck up to their frozen little hearts' content, and then the Dems spend the next several elections running against Sockpuppet Prez Bush, Real President Cheney, and their ilk. 
The Constitution establishes that Congress is composed of both bodies - the House of Representatives and the Senate. A Supreme Court decision in 1938 (Wright vs. United States) affirms this regarding pocket vetoes.
Bush cannot Pocket Veto because the Senate is currently in session. It does not matter that the House that originated the bill is not in session - Congress is.
and when would this whitehouse ever try and erode the consitition?
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