Bush’s disuse of veto pen going down in history

President Bush is big on exercising his presidential power in many areas, but so far he’s used his precious veto power only as a threat — in the cases of 133 bills he disliked, most recently any that would have shut down the now-dead Dubai Ports World deal.
Bloomberg reported that on March 20, in fact, Bush will pass James Monroe to become second only to Thomas Jefferson among U.S. presidents in the length of time without using a veto. But who knows? Maybe if Congress gave him the line-item veto authority he asked for last week, Bush would start wearing out the veto pens. It could happen.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

6 Comments

  1. Ed Friedemann
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 4:57 am | Permalink

    Bush needs to veto himself back to Texas and do the only thing he’s any good at; chopping wood.

    The stupid bastard has got China threatening to nuke 50 of our cities if we don’t stop kissing Israel’s ass by threatening to nuke Iran’s oil suppy which China is buying.

    We need to make peace with the Arabs by kicking the Jews out of the West Bank, stop sending them money we don’t have, and form a Palestinian States, whether the Lunatic Zionists like it or not.

    Also rejoin the World Court and start hanging Zionist-Jew war criminals { or let the Arabs chop their heads-off which would be better }.

    Jews like to make trouble for other people, so its high-times they got a dose of their own medicine.

  2. Ben Huie
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 7:31 am | Permalink

    With his party in firm control of all branches of government why should Bush need a vato? He doesn’t dare cross any of his staunch supporters; that could fracture his control.

  3. ProudLib
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 10:39 am | Permalink

    Exactly right, Ben. When you’ve got Congress as a rubber-stamp for your legislation agenda, why do you need a veto?

    Nothing from the opposition makes it out of committee, let alone to the floor for a vote.

    BTW, the Supreme Court already ruled the line-item veto unconstitutional. Unconstitutional for Clinton, of course.

    I don’t think the Supreme Court will be able to reverse that, much as they’d like too.

    They already whored themselves out for Bush in the 2000 sElection. There’d be massive discontent if they did it again.

    Contrary to popular understanding, Supreme Court justices can be impeached, just like other gov’t officials.

  4. Ed Friedemann
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 7:55 pm | Permalink

    Rice, Bush Rumsfeld and Israel will need a new “patsy.”

    Syria didn’t do it as the US knew all along.http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6963B213-98AF-4AB8-942A-3535DFDA1079.htm

  5. Ed Friedemann
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 7:57 pm | Permalink

    That leaves the Mossad.

  6. Ed Friedemann
    Posted March 13, 2006 at 8:48 pm | Permalink

    Slobodan Milosevic dies in prison for what Bush does every single day.

    We need to clean-house starting with Bush and both sides of the isle.

    The Zionists of Israel have made our government rotten to its core. They’re like termites eating from the inside out.