Can anyone give a good reason President Bush has not vetoed a single spending bill since he has been in office

Question

Fiscal irresponsibility is my guess.

Answer 1

He's failed at every other business he's ever tried, why not this one?

I love the "tax-and-spend democrat" line that people like to throw around. Democrats need to raise taxes to pay off debts incurred by their Republican predecessors. Clinton raised taxes to help offset years of republican fiscal irresponsibility. Carter did the same. Democrats have suddenly become the party of fiscal responsibility while raising the standard of living. Bush is the first president in history to go to war without raising taxes (cutting them, instead) or asking for "shared responsibility".

I would expect a mad search for the "veto stamp" if Democrats gain control this year.

Bush was a "c student" at Yale, majoring in Business Administration. I am wondering what the hell they taught him. His "real-world" experience tells me they graded him too high.

Answer 2

No the answer is his use of signing statements

"Rather than veto laws passed by Congress, Bush is using his signing statements to effectively nullify them as they relate to the executive branch. These statements, for him, function as directives to executive branch departments and agencies as to how they are to implement the relevant law...

Bush has quietly been using these statements to bolster presidential powers. It is a calculated, systematic scheme that has gone largely unnoticed (even though these statements are published in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents) until recently, when President Bush's used a signing statement to attempt to nullify the recent, controversial McCain amendment regarding torture, which drew some media attention...

Suppose a new law requires the President to act in a certain manner - for instance, to report to Congress on how he is dealing with terrorism. Bush's signing statement will flat out reject the law, and state that he will construe the law "in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to withhold information the disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, the national security, the deliberative processes of the Executive, or the performance of the Executive's constitutional duties.

The upshot? It is as if no law had been passed on the matter at
all"

Answer 3

because they told him that's why we have our own printing press, to make all the money we need, so we can spend all the money we want to. also they gave him a shopping list and told him to get everything on it

because he was told he can't do that

because they didn't tell him he could

because he forgot what 'veto' means

''veto?, i don't know anyone named Vito, so why would i want him killed? is he a terrorist?" - gwb

Answer 4

becasue conservatives use the lie that their budget savy and liberals spend, spend, spend. that is a bush lie or bushism. clinton had a surplus, bush a deficit, the truth is the truth.

Answer 5

Doesn't know how to read or write, maybe??