Use the Pen!
May 8, 2006 01:18 PM
The Washington Examiner challenges President Bush to use the pen:
If the House somehow caves on this one and allows the Senate’s earmark-laden emergency spending measure to become the basis of what is sent to the White House, Bush will be the last official in Washington with a chance to control the federal Leviathan’s voracious appetite for tax dollars that come straight out of your paycheck.
If Bush fails to deliver his first veto now, it won’t much matter for the rest of his term what he thinks about executive branch powers, because the Old Bulls in Congress will have all the privileges that count.
Amen, brother. Although I am keeping hope alive that Majority Leader Boehner and Speaker Hastert will ensure it doesn't come to that...
President Bush will be remembered for what he would not want to be remembered for, if he fails to use his VETO power NOW!
All I can say is that we should vote out all the current members of Congress and all State Congress's. Then start all over with a new group, who maybe will do what the people want and not what they personally want. The politicians would think twice before going their own way!