Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her U.S. House leadership try to do things so fast that they make things worse. I came across an Associated Press story about how President Bush vetoed the Farm Bill that was just presented to him. 

The President promised to veto this bill and the House leadership was ready and waiting. This bill is a five year measure that gives too much money to already rich farmers for the crops they grow, gives more money to farmers not to plant land, and provides too much money for subsidies of ethanol.

Just a mere five hours after the veto the U.S. House had a Veto Override Vote that passed 316 – 108 in favor of override, with the U.S. Senate to quickly follow suit. 

The problem appeared when it was discovered that Congress had omitted a 34 page section of the bill when it was sent to the White House. This means that a different version of the bill was vetoed and now they have to decide if the override passed this changed version into law.

The article doesn’t say what was in the omitted section of the bill but the House Democrats had to pull their fiscal blueprint from the floor. This is the non-binding projected budget that they were hoping to campaign on during the holiday weekend and now they don’t know if this blueprint is being exceeded or reduced in size because the Farm Bill is in limbo. Members will have to explain to their constituents why they voted for this measure and explain why peoples taxes are going to go up with nothing to show for it.