To: peyton randolph
You are from Texas and don't believe me? I ususally don't respond to FReepers who have registerted before 2000, but this President has guts. Why would you possibly challenge that statement? You are smarter than ZE? You have an ability to make more money in the process?
I've been around the block a few times, there pr. In Politics, either you make money, influence events or just blow hard.
I blow hard. How about you?
To: Zuben Elgenubi; peyton randolph
I blow charts and tables. Here's a good one telling why Peyton has his justified concerns. Now I believe that President Bush has the power of his convictions. He has already sent Michael Bolton back to the Senate but what followed was a media void, so I suspect that he was simply ignored as not to inflame the public. However, I suspect Bush's veto power might simply serve as a tool to keep impeachment proceedings at bay, for all the good it will do him. His big problems is that he is convinced the rats want the best for the country as well. He probably won't give that up until he is convicted in the house and the senate.
President Bush will try to work with the rats as he has done the past 6 years. That will hurt his presidency worse than he can imagine.
Interesting to see that Presidents Monroe and Van Buren have a similar history. I'd like to learn more about their presidencies at the atmosphere at the time.
Presidential Vetos - President Bush at the bottom of the class at time of print.
President |
Congresses |
Regular Vetoes
|
Pocket Vetoes
|
Total Vetoes
|
Vetoes Overridden
|
George Washington |
1st- 4th |
2
|
.....
|
2
|
.....
|
John Adams |
5th-6th |
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
Thomas Jefferson |
7th-10th |
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
James Madison |
11th-14th |
5
|
2
|
7
|
.....
|
James Monroe |
15th-18th |
1
|
.....
|
1
|
.....
|
John Quincy Adams |
19th-20th |
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
Andrew Jackson |
21st-24th |
5
|
7
|
12
|
.....
|
Martin Van Buren |
25th-26th |
.....
|
1
|
1
|
.....
|
William Henry Harrison |
27th |
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
John Tyler |
27th-28th |
6
|
4
|
10
|
1
|
James K. Polk |
29th-30th |
2
|
1
|
3
|
.....
|
Zachary Taylor |
31st |
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
Millard Fillmore |
31st-32nd |
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
Franklin Pierce |
33rd-34th |
9
|
.....
|
9
|
5
|
James Buchanan |
35th-36th |
4
|
3
|
7
|
.....
|
Abraham Lincoln |
37th-39th |
2
|
5
|
7
|
.....
|
Andrew Johnson |
39th-40th |
21
|
8
|
29
|
15
|
Ulysses S. Grant |
41st-44th |
45
|
48
|
93
|
4
|
Rutherford B. Hayes |
45th-46th |
12
|
1
|
13
|
1
|
James A. Garfield |
47th |
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
.....
|
Chester A. Arthur |
47th-48th |
4
|
8
|
12
|
1
|
Grover Cleveland |
49th-50th |
304
|
110
|
414
|
2
|
Benjamin Harrison |
51st-52nd |
19
|
25
|
44
|
1
|
Grover Cleveland |
53rd-54th |
42
|
128
|
170
|
5
|
William McKinley |
55th-57th |
6
|
36
|
42
|
.....
|
Theodore Roosevelt |
57th-60th |
42
|
40
|
82
|
1
|
William H. Taft |
61st-62nd |
30
|
9
|
39
|
1
|
Woodrow Wilson |
63rd-66th |
33
|
11
|
44
|
6
|
Warren G. Harding |
67th |
5
|
1
|
6
|
.....
|
Calvin Coolidge |
68th-70th |
20
|
30
|
50
|
4
|
Herbert C. Hoover |
71st-72nd |
21
|
16
|
37
|
3
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
73rd-79th |
372
|
263
|
635
|
9
|
Harry S. Truman |
79th-82nd |
180
|
70
|
250
|
12
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
83rd-86th |
73
|
108
|
181
|
2
|
John F. Kennedy |
87th-88th |
12
|
9
|
21
|
.....
|
Lyndon B. Johnson |
88th-90st |
16
|
14
|
30
|
.....
|
Richard M. Nixon |
91st-93rd |
26
|
17
|
43
|
7
|
Gerald R. Ford |
93rd-94th |
48
|
18
|
66
|
12
|
James Earl Carter |
95th-96th |
13
|
18
|
31
|
2
|
Ronald Reagan |
97th-100th |
39
|
39
|
78
|
9
|
George Bush* |
101th-102nd |
29
|
15
|
44
|
1
|
William J. Clinton |
103rd-106th |
36
|
1
|
37
|
2
|
George W. Bush |
107th-109th |
1
|
.....
|
1
|
.....
|
Total
|
............
|
1485
|
1066
|
2551
|
106
|
|
12 posted on
11/12/2006 2:30:14 AM PST by
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