2006 Days

By: Eric
Published On: 7/19/2006 2:46:33 PM

Not only is 2006 the current year, but it's also the number of days that Dubya Bush had gone without issuing a veto (if I did my calculation correctly).

Today is his first...

What I find particularly interesting about this factoid is how much it implicates the Republican leadership as a whole for the current state of the nation. 

The lack of veto means that Bush was never given a piece of legislation that he didn't like. 

The lack of veto means that Bush and the Republican leadership are in sync.

It really is time for a change.  And I don't think we need to wait another 2006 days.


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::rolls eyes:: (phriendlyjaime - 7/19/2006 3:28:40 PM)
::puts face in hands::
::looks up::
::sighs heavily::
::rolls eyes again::
::puts head on desk::
::cries for the fate of the country::


Talking Embryo (seveneasypeaces - 7/20/2006 2:43:02 AM)
You know how signing is a cheap photo op and somebody gets the Pen(s).  He did not allow any pictures while he signed.  He did it quietly. He doesn't want any pictures to go public. Then he had that ridiculous 4 year old press conference with a sprinkling of parents.  Puleaseeee

The Daily Show tonight was really good.  A keeper!

www.comedycentral.com



2006 days? (Dan - 7/19/2006 5:01:53 PM)
2006 days.  Interesting statistic to point out.  However, in your short post you neglect to mention what this asshole was vetoing.  You just link to it.  Of course, I'd like to write an article about it, but I won't.  I would like to point out how pissed off I am that of all the things to veto, this is the best Bush can come up with.  I guess in private we may hear Bush say: "Hey, Mr. Cripple, suck my balls, you ain't getting no help". 

In fact, it was on this issue that I first began to detest Laura Bush.  Laura Bush, while well-liked, is an enabler of the worst President in history.  Furthermore, she is pretty much a scumbag based on the things she has said in the past.  When asked a couple years ago about stem cell research, she said, to paraphrase, "well, there is really little hope about stem cells anyway".  Thanks Mrs. Science expert.  I am sure you are such an expert on the subject, especially since your stupid husband hates science.  Of course, why should we expect this braindead, morally-dead piece of human excrement to understand that science needs support, not skepticism.  Frankly, Bush can have his veto and his wife can think stem cells are just a pipe dream that won't matter before Jesus comes back and takes her to fairy land.  My only hope is that one day, if anyone in the Bush family could be saved by stem cells, that they will be BARRED from using them.  If I were President, I wouldn't veto anyone that supported that!



Got to agree with you both (ScoopJacksonDemocrat - 7/19/2006 5:16:21 PM)
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney campaigned in 2000 as supposed moderates and as compassionate conservatives.  Hopefully, the country is waking up to the fact that they are neither.  Bush, Cheney, Rove and company believe in perpetual campaigns and they campaign the way Joe McCarthy, Dick Nixon and George Wallace did.  They are perpetually in search of wedge issues, seeking to divide Americans rather than unite them behind a sensible vision for governing the country and protecting U.S. national security interests.  As The New Republic stated recently, if Bush and Cheney truly believed in their so-called strategy for victory in Iraq, they would be searching for common ground rather than villifying the media and opposition and accusing the Democrats of either appeasing terrorists or, even worse, of aiding and abetting them.  If they truly believed in their so-called strategy for governing the country, they would be searching for common ground on domestic issues rather than seeking to whip the far right Republican base into a frenzy and scaring them and as many independents as possible to death.  Hopefully, if nothing else, the American electorate will say no in November to this Bush-Cheney-Rove strategy of turning American against American and of dividing and conquering the electorate.  On the specific issue in discussion, this is the most anti-science administration in my memory, which includes more administrations that I would care to admit. It is pathetic that this is Bush's first veto and that he chose this ground on which take take such a stand.


Agree with Dan also (ScoopJacksonDemocrat - 7/19/2006 5:18:20 PM)
I see that Dan beat me to the punch.  I agree with him as well.


Speaking of Wedge Issues- It's Time to Turn the Tables (RayH - 7/19/2006 11:35:21 PM)
This stem cell bill veto isn't the last we'll hear on this issue. It's an issue that appears to divide Republicans, whereas Democrats are fairly united. I'm very disappointed that Bush vetoed the bill today. But people will want to hear about this in the Congressional election this fall.

Let's give Republicans a wedgie.



at least Jefferson stands alone now! (pvogel - 7/20/2006 12:06:40 AM)
Only Jefferson had gone 8 years w/o a veto!!!
I hated that Bush was part of that small club.

Now bush is just another of the 5 worst prez club.

Not as bad as Grant, but worse than nixon!!!