Washington ? President Bush accused the Democratic-led Congress of wasting taxpayers’ time picking fights with the White House instead of resolving disputes over money for U.S. troops and the firings of the U.S. attorneys.

In his weekly radio address Saturday, Bush called on Democratic leaders in Congress to move beyond political discord and take bipartisan action on both issues.

He urged them to accept his offer to allow lawmakers to interview his advisers about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors – but not under oath – and provide documents detailing communications about the firings with outside parties.

Democrats, armed with subpoenas for Bush’s top political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides, are pressing the White House to allow advisers to answer questions under oath about the firing of eight federal prosecutors. Bush says the Democrats are simply playing politics, trying to create a media spectacle.

The president also accused Democrats of partisanship in the House vote on Friday for a war spending bill that requires combat operations to cease before September 2008.

Passage marked the Democrats’ most brazen challenge yet to Bush on a war that has killed more than 3,200 troops and lost favor with the American public.

Bush said the emergency spending bill the House narrowly passed, 218-212, would cut the number of troops below a level that U.S. military commanders say they need and set an artificial timetable for withdrawal.

The $124 billion House legislation would pay for war operations this year but would require that combat troops come home before September 2008 – or earlier if the Iraqi government did not meet certain requirements.

Bush said that to get the votes needed to pass the bill, House Democrats included billions of dollars in domestic and pork barrel spending for local congressional districts that has nothing to do with the war.

“The vote in the House was very close,” Bush said. “This means that the Democrats do not have enough votes to override my veto.”