For all the bills that the dems pass will bush veto ?

[blues90]

If he does does it not take two thirds of the senate to pass them after the veto .

I suspect he will veto to at least try to stall the bills .

[WiseButAngrySara]

1. I've wondered about this question and haven't seen it or I've

missed discussion of it on DU. B* is now asking for a line-item veto ...worry about the effectiveness of our newly elected Congress.

[Fridays Child]

2. Yes, 2/3 is a veto-proof majority, and I suspect that Bush will begin to either make...

...very liberal use of his veto power or execute ever more disingenuous signing statements--or both.

[liberalnurse]

4. What is that in final

math terms? :shrug: :kick:

[Fridays Child]

8. I think, in the House, it's 292 votes and...

...in the Senate, it's 67 votes.

[liberalnurse]

9. Thank you.....

I was on R&R since just getting off work from a 10 hour shift! :hi:

[WCGreen]

3. He'll veto them all....

They are designing the bills to be such...

Now, several will not get out of the Senate but the Dem's will be able to say that they presented an opposition to the President by passing their agenda in the House, the peoples chamber...

It's good political theater and will draw a fine line of distinction on which our presidential candidate can build an opposition...

Unless of course the party is stupid enough to nominate a triangulator when we have the chance to take it all next time...

[tblue]

6. Yep, bring 'em on! Let the lines be drawn.

[flyingfysh]

5. he won't need to veto anything

He'll just create signing statement nullifying the content of the law and adding whatever he wants.

[Bill McBlueState]

7. article 1, section 7, paragraph 2 of the constitution:

http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec7.html

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.