1,889 days and no vetoes: Bush gaining on Jefferson

[sabra]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-03-22-bush-vetoes_x.htm

1,889 days and no vetoes: Bush gaining on Jefferson

WASHINGTON — President Bush Thursday becomes the longest-sitting president since Thomas Jefferson not to exercise his veto, surpassing James Monroe.

Monroe was in office 1,888 days before he vetoed his first bill on May 4, 1822, a measure to impose a toll on the first federal highway. Jefferson never exercised his veto during two terms in 1801-09. (Related: Congress friendly, so who needs veto?)

Thursday is Bush's 1,889th day in office, and no veto is in sight. As of Wednesday, Congress had sent him 1,091 bills. He signed them all.

Bush came close to a veto last month when Congress threatened to block a deal to turn over operations at ports in six states to a company owned by the Arab emirate of Dubai. He threatened a veto, but he avoided a showdown when the Dubai company decided to sell that part of its business to American interests.

[ozymandius]

1. Do we know that was really his signature on 1,091 bills?

I mean, c'mon, how hard can it be to forge an "X"?

[onehandle]

2. Spend! Spend! Spend! How he loves to see Republicans pork up! nt

[Sal316]

3. Kinda proves Frist wrong, eh?

I mean, Frist says the $8 trillion debt is all the democrats' fault. It couldn't be that George is spending like a drunken guardsman from an Alabama unit, right?

[Onlooker]

4. This could be great political fodder for the Dems

As Republicans try to distance themselves from the unpopular president, this fact could be used to show how much in lock-step the Republicans were with Bush.

[niyad]

5. Now WHY would * veto the bills of his repuke/thug congress--after all,

it isn't like he is facing an opposition party, so I find this whole thing absurd.