Posted on 10/10/2005 1:05:22 PM PDT by SmithL
GOV. Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to take an occasional shot at the California Legislature for spending too much time on what he has suggested are frivolous issues.
His actions speak otherwise.
As of Friday, the deadline for him to take action on bills from the session, the governor's office reported that Schwarzenegger had signed 729 bills and vetoed just 232. It seems that either legislators are producing bill of matters of significance or the governor is joining in the frivolity.
In fact, the end-of-week flurry of signs and vetoes was fairly representative of Schwarzenegger's approach to governing. He is decidedly sympathetic to business concerns -- and is usually in sync with the California Chamber of Commerce on what it calls its "job killer" bills -- but he is hardly doctrinaire and is good for a surprise and even a change of mind from time to time.
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Yes on 75!
Liberal papers be damned.
So vetoing a quarter of the bills the legistlator passed is not good enough for the MSM. That doesn't sound too bad.
Arnold 232
President Bush 0
Davis would have signed everyone of the 232 bills vetoed by Arnold. Arnold terminated about 1/3 of the crap passed by the perverts in our legislature.
Bush has no line item veto power.
The supreme court took away the president's power over the budget by taking away line item veto power.
We need a constitutional amendment for line item veto power.
The Constitution gives congress the power of the budget.
We need a constitutional amendment for line item veto power.
I used to believe so. I have changed my mind. I know from reports that Clinton (the only president to have it) regularly used it is as a weapon against members of congress to get them to vote his way on things and he wouldn't veto items they put in the budget.
It is a tool that is very dangerous in its power.
The California Governor has that power, but it hasn't been used for anything significant in recent years. Instead, Gov. Schwawrzenegger opted for budget negotiations (to arrive at a mutually agreeable budget) before the budget passed the legislature, and ex-Gov. Davis pretty much did the same.
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