Thursday, February 23, 2006

Getting To Yes

Partisan Politics

From Slate:

No president since Warren Harding has finished with fewer than 21 vetoes. The last president with no vetoes was James Garfield, who was shot in his first year. In fact, three of the last four presidents who never vetoed a bill had a good excuse: Like Harding, they died in office: Garfield, Zachary Taylor, and William Henry Harrison. (The fourth was Taylor’s successor Millard Fillmore.)

Bush, of course, has yet to veto a single bill, a feat only achieved heretofore by dead men.

I guess in one sense, it makes one a practicing conservative if one does not ever act, but in another, more accurate sense, it makes one a sap.


Posted by Johno on 02/23/06 at 05:39 PM
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