Getting To Yes
From Slate:
No president since Warren Harding has finished with fewer than 21 vetoes. The last president with no vetoes was James Garfield, who was shot in his first year. In fact, three of the last four presidents who never vetoed a bill had a good excuse: Like Harding, they died in office: Garfield, Zachary Taylor, and William Henry Harrison. (The fourth was Taylor's successor Millard Fillmore.)
Bush, of course, has yet to veto a single bill, a feat only achieved heretofore by dead men.
I guess in one sense, it makes one a practicing conservative if one does not ever act, but in another, more accurate sense, it makes one a sap.
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Considering what a fount of
Considering what a fount of excrement the US Congress is, an active wielding of the veto power is a good thing. Most bills probably should be vetoed. Maybe even all of them.
Right on, brother.
Right on, brother.
Sadly, this is a result of
Sadly, this is a result of the dysfunctional political process itself, namely that there's so much fucking horse-trading that goes on, nobody's willing to bring a bill to the floor ready to fight on it.
Why? Because they worked out all the details in a back room somewhere, attached to each other's choad. The White House gets excrement, delivered fresh each day, because it's actively participated in the manufacturing process, I'm afraid. And some folks actually believe that old saw about their own shit not stinking.
Gaah. That's depressing.
Gaah. That's depressing.
I get the impression that in this White House, the line of thinking runs like this:
You do your thing over there, we'll do our thing over here, and let's neither of us look too close at what the other one is up to.
And whether I'm right, you're right, or we're both right, I'm not too durned sure that this arrangement amounts to "check and balance."
Funny thing is, I don't think
Funny thing is, I don't think it's possible for one of us to be right and one to be wrong on this one - we're saying the precisely same thing.
Except you said it with less profanity.