Bush never once vetoed a budget. Not once.
It’s his baby.
Bush gave us No Child Left Behind spending. With Ted Kennedy more drug spending.
He was a compassionate( i.e., big spending ) conservative.
Wrong as usual I see. Bush's budgets had nothing to do with the collapse of the subprime mortgage market (the subject of the thread), whether he vetoed them or not.
With Ted Kennedy more drug spending.
Nope.
2003: Kennedy backs Bush's 2003 plan to add a prescription benefit to Medicare that came with a $400 billion price tag spread out over 10 years. But when Kennedy learns that the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003 would, for the first time, allow private HMOs to compete with Medicare for patients, Kennedy works to amend the bill, criticizing the proposal for Medicare competition as "an untried, untested, unworkable program.'' His efforts ultimately prove futile and he opposes the final bill. The Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003 passes Congress and is signed into law by Bush on Dec. 8, 2003.