Bush vows another Veto

I have to wonder what the results one year ago might have been if President Bush had started acting tough and vetoing bloated spending bills in early 2005 - shortly after his re-election. Would the Republican base have been so disenchanted and stayed away from the polls last November if he had been beating up on the big spenders in Congress. Admittedly at that time it was the GOP in the majority but there were tax and spend Republicans voting with the Democrats to pass the bloated spending bills.

Today he has vowed to veto the Farm Bill passed by the Senate. Recently he has vowed to veto several other bloated spending bills.

The voters were disgusted with the pork barrel earmarks - the same as they are now. They were upset with their Congress spending without control and they were upset with Bush for letting them do it.

Bush should have been doing what he is doing right now long ago, starting in January 01 for that matter. Yes, when we went to war with the terrorists after 9/11, more had to be spent on defense - but there should have been, if not a decrease, a level funding of the non-defense portions of the Government. There should not have been the expansion of non defense government spending we have seen and 9/11 was no valid excuse.

Expanding subsidized health care to middle class families, expanding subsidies to corporate farmers, allowing unchecked earmarks all are fair game and Cheers to the President for taking this action - albeit years late.

Crossposted at RobBoyce