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I was looking at a chart of presidential vetoes, and there is no past president who has a similar record of rubber stamping acts of Congress like George W. "Baby" Bush. This president, whose defenders cite as being such a principled man of conviction, who does what he thinks is right, no matter what the political consequences, is apparently quite a rubber stamp for this Congress. The last president never to veto a bill was James Garfield, who served only 6 months in office. To find another president who went this long without vetoing a bill you have to go back to Martin Van Buren and John Quincy Adams (is there something about sons of former presidents?), each of whom had no vetoes during their respective single term presidencies. For a two term president who did not ever veto a bill, you have to go back to Thomas Jefferson. The issue isn't that Congress is controlled by his party, either. FDR vetoed 372 bills, and he had a Democratic Congress for over 12 years. LBJ vetoed 16 bills in just over 5 years; Carter vetoed 13 bills in 4 years; Coolidge vetoed 20 bills in almost 6 years as president. All had a Congress controlled by their party.
Every time Bush has threatened to veto a bill he has backed down: the pork riddled highway bill, the torture ban (which he signed, but will likely interpret so flexibly as to make it worthless) and the McCain-Feingold bill.
Source on the data: Vital Statistics on American Politics, 1997-98, CQ Press: Washington, D.C., p. 252.
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