After both houses of Congress moved with close to record speed right before recess to pass the president's appropriations request -- the largest in history -- the president wasted no time in pushing everything back to square one by promising to veto whatever might emerge from conference once Congress returns from recess. Today, President Bush appeared to castigate Congress for wasting everybody's time by adding conditions to a funding bill: The Democrat leaders in, Democratic leaders in Congress are bent using a bill that funds our troops to make a political statement about the war. They need to do it quickly and get it to my desk, so I can veto it. And then Congress can get down to the business of funding our troops without strings and without further delay. Since the funding conditions may well, for all we know, end up as ignorable timetable "goals," it seems that the president is jumping the gun in issuing veto threats that bring us back to go again.