Novak's List: Even a stopped clock is right twice a day!

Bob Novak provides a list of (fortunately) stalled initiatives in Congress. We can only hope that Bush's success continues.

 The House passed a stem cell research funding bill marked by Bush for his first veto after GOP leaders made a deal with liberals to bring the measure to the floor in return for their votes on the budget.

 The Senate's highway bill exceeds the president's overly generous spending limits, peppered with pork projects earmarked by individual senators.

 Senior Republican senators cut a deal on judicial confirmations that threw overboard at least two of the president's nominees.

 Republican Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio delayed and broke the momentum for confirmation of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

 Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, preparing a bid for the GOP presidential nomination, has put a hold on the nomination of longtime Bush supporter Julie Finley as ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) because of her abortion activism.

 CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) ratification is in deep trouble and will need more effort than shown so far by the White House.

The president's top legislative priority, Social Security reform, is becalmed. What Bush wants cannot pass either chamber of Congress.

posted by Stash @ 7:34 AM