John Barnard wrote:
dxAce wrote:
John Barnard wrote:
clifto wrote:
John Barnard wrote:
clifto wrote:
John Barnard wrote:
Cmdr Buzz Corey wrote:
Saw on TV where the Canadians want to erect a memorial to honor the
cowards from the US who ran up there during the Viet Nam war. Way to go
CanaDUH, nothing like honoring cowards.

Too bad the USA went a little crazy after that losing that war.

That's pretty much because right after we lost that war, the leftists
were able to move into power.

Strictly on a President/party basis, the Republicans have been in power longer
than the Democrats since 1975. You may want to revise your statement.

President only doesn't count. Too many of those years, a Democratic
Congress stifled every move the president wanted to make.

I suppose that the Presidential veto doesn't count for anything. Nixon had 43 total
vetoes and 7 were overridden, Ford had 66 and 12 were overridden, Carter had 31 and
2 were overridden, Reagan had 78 and 9 were overrideen, Bush I had 44 (and 2 pocket
vetoes which weren't counted in the totals as they were tried between sessions) and
1 were overridden and Clinton had 38 vetoes and 2 were overridden. In other words,
the Presidents had an effective hand in suppressing things that they didn't like.

You need to study our system a bit more. The party in power can see to it that
proposed legislation never even makes it out of committee to receive a vote.

So give me some numbers to show how often proposed legislation never makes it out of
committee to receive a vote.

When the Dems controlled Congress, it was a daily matter. Repubs back
then complained to anyone who'd listen that they couldn't even get a
bill to the floor. The only times they'd get a hearing is when some
maverick Dem needed some logrolling, and often their bills were sent
to die in committee.

Don't forget there are times when a veto is a fool's errand, too. When
it's obvious the Congress is bent on something, a presidential veto
becomes nothing more than a way to commit political suicide. I vaguely
remember a recent (i.e. last ten years) example, but the circumstances
don't come to mind.

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