Ok, how often does a president, none in particular, have to use his veto before he becomes a "dictator"?

Question

I just seems Bush is threatening to "veto" everything...Did the US not just have a democratic election?..did I miss something?...when did the US transform from a "democracy" to a capitalist dictatorship?

Answer 1

How ever many times he wants. It is his constitutional right. Term limits and checks and balances keep the president from being a dictator. Also, if there's enough support for a bill, a veto can be overridden. In case you haven't noticed, President Bush has used the veto fewer times than most if not all presidents in the history of the U.S.

Answer 2

Use of the veto does not make a president a dictator. The power to veto is written into the Constitution of the United States as part of the system of checks and balances. This keeps any one of the three branches of the Government from becoming too powerful, at the expense of the other two.

Congress writes/passes laws: the Sureme Court can declare them unconstitutional, or the President can Veto them.

The Supreme Court makes ruling on Laws and Constitutionality: the President appoints the Justices, and Congress can write laws that take a ruling out of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

The President can propose budgets and veto laws, as well as issue Presidential Orders, but the Congress can override the veto with sufficient votes. The Supreme Court can declare a Presidential Order unconstitutional.

Read a copy of the Constitution some time -- it is very enlightening.

Oh, and BTW -- the United States has NEVER been a true democracy -- we are a democratic republic. That is ALSO written up in the Constitution. In a true democracy, everybody has to vote on everything. Can you imagine trying to get every single American to vote on every little law passed for every state and the nation as a whole?

Can you imagine how hard it would be to get 300 million+ Americans to the polls to vote on the Tiarht Amendment to the Federal Appropriations Bill? (Do you even know what the Tiarht Amendment is?) Then multiply that by the approximately 50000 things that Congress decides it has to vote on every year . . . when would we ever get any work done? We'd constantly be on line at the polls.

A true democracy may work in a small town of a hundred people, but in a nation as vast as ours, it would bog down into the impossible.

Answer 3

Yes the U.S. did have a Democratic election and Bush was elected with that process.Another thing to think about is that if this is a dictatorship,then why do we have second Amendment rights.The first thing a Dictator would want to do is take away that right to eliminate any threat to their oppression.The reason why Bush gets veto happy is because the Democrats are acting like children in a grocery store when they don't get what they want.They don't want to reason with Bush about anything and proof of that is when Hilary and O'bama voted to cut funding for our troops and were willing to put there lives in even more danger just to send the president a message.If Bush is so bad then why is it that we have not had a single terrorist attack on our soil since 9/11 and all sorts of terror plots were foiled.Not a single man or woman on the left has been able to answer that question.

Answer 4

Lets see he's veto 1 bill in 6 years, boy thats alot.

Answer 5

I don't get this question--are you saying you're against the Constitution? If the veto were used abusingly, don't you think it would be overrriden by Congress? Doesn't that check on presidential power negate the "dictator" argument?

Answer 6

You need a civics class. It's called checks and balances. Our founders built it into our system of government so that one branch cannot try to solidify power.
And, our country's government is a republic, not a democracy. Learn the difference.
"Capitalist" and "dictatorship" is an oxymoron.