Hey George, if You're in the Mood to Veto, . . .
Sure it's easy enough to pick on the sick and ill by taking away the option of new research on stem cells, but how much fun is it to kick folks who are already down?
I say let's get that veto pen out and do some actual good with it. How about the
2005 Transportation Act? -- it was $2 billion over your "limit" and held a record 6,371 "earmark" or Congressional pet projects that added up to $24 billion of that final $284 billion cost.
or
the farm bill. I'm not a great Cato Institute fan, but it's hard to argue that if Congress & the Administration reallly wanted to care for farmers, they could guarantee every full-time farmer (sorry agribusiness) a minimum income of $32,652 for a family of for for only $4 billion/year. And it would cost 1/4th of what it does now to offer all those subsidies in the new bill.
And that's just the beginning and doesn't even touch the international costs you're racking up.
I say let's get that veto pen out and do some actual good with it. How about the
2005 Transportation Act? -- it was $2 billion over your "limit" and held a record 6,371 "earmark" or Congressional pet projects that added up to $24 billion of that final $284 billion cost.
or
the farm bill. I'm not a great Cato Institute fan, but it's hard to argue that if Congress & the Administration reallly wanted to care for farmers, they could guarantee every full-time farmer (sorry agribusiness) a minimum income of $32,652 for a family of for for only $4 billion/year. And it would cost 1/4th of what it does now to offer all those subsidies in the new bill.
And that's just the beginning and doesn't even touch the international costs you're racking up.
posted by Anonymous at 5:54 PM
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Check today's Post "Bush's Tactic of Refusing Laws is Probed" to learn why he doesn't veto anything. He signs things into law and then sends out an "issue statement" that says he reserves "the right not to enforce or execute part of the new laws, on the grounds that they infringe on presidential authority or violate other constitutional provisions." And he's done this more often than all the other presidents together.
Why he didn't do that with stem cells? Who knows. And who is he to decide what does or doesn't violte the constitution? Who's violated it more than he has lately?
He knew stem cells would pass by a wide margin but not quite 2/3. He vetoed it to make a show for the religious right (the only support he has left). He's a phony and a hypocrite.
I have some other thoughts on this issue that I expressed privately to my friend Emma. It's a side issue that I wasn't sure belonged on the blog.
Hi LaPopessa and thanks for your comments on isamericaburning today. I'm not sure how you found our obscure little blog but I'm very glad you did.
Worried American will probably be checking in with you as well.
Come back anytime.
Ann (aka granny)
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Can he veto Rumsfeld?
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