My my my how naive you are. What "political damage"? How would vetoing two pork laden rapes of the American public hurt Bush? His supporters would have cheered. His enemies would still hate him, but those conservatives in the middle would have come more into the Bush/Republican camp. As it is, his core supporters still love him (you can see their mindless droolings on the "day in the life..." thread). His enemies still hate him - he can't give enough of other peoples' money away to out squander and out plunder a Democrat. Core Democrats will always hate a Republican, no matter how socialistic he is. And those conservatives who were hoping for a change from the plunder and squander mentality in Washington are alienated. The political damage was done by Bush not vetoing those two bills.
Why don't you blame him for global warming and the stock market like the rest of the Bush haters around this forum.
I think "global warming" is a complete fraud perpetrated by socialists to try to expand government power (it's woking pretty well so far) and the stock market problems are due largely to government regulation and the fed.
Why don't you claim that Bush walks on water, raises the dead, changes water into wine? These are no more false than the claim that he is a conservative.
The farm bill was in fact a congressional boondoggle. Full of pork and french fries. I believe it was signed to appease certain congress critters for a yes vote on other issues in the house and Senate. It is likely that they screwed him. The situation has changed since.
There is no way any one person is going to be happy with the results of a congressional session. At present the margins are so close as to be meaningless. The dems are successful in getting there crap attached to half way decent legislation.
The Ed bill was carved up when dickhead switched parties and the bill was rushed through the Senate. Controls and testing that the dems fought tooth and nail did get through for the most part. If ed doesnot improve I suspect a major overhaul of the dept. will finally take place.(assuming Bush gets 4 more and we get the Senate back.
For the most part, he has done well on domestic issues. I give him a B, considering the heavy opposition. Government must now go into a economy mode to get out of deficit and pay for the WOT. We shall see.
Apparently you did not study Bush's record as governor prior to the election. I did and he is not surprising me.
He was known as being flexable but firm and a deal maker with the democrats.
No surprises. I expect the veto pen to warm up a little, now that attempts to negociate have been shot down by Dasshole.