The quote is from one of Tony Snow’s speeches on the supplemental appropriation bill explaining some of the falters such as how it would weaken the efforts to sustain peace, the issues of the governments real need of money to help the troops, and how it would tie the hands of the generals. The division of power between the republicans and democrats had made it an even more difficult decision when it came to this bill. Early on in the briefing room Snow had made it very apparent that the president would veto and congress would sustain it, making his speech short and to the point. Bush was a republican and then there was a democratic side which was liberals vs. conservatives. Going back to the generals hands being tied up, because bush was a
