More on Dictatorship and the Bush Veto

Nancy Pelosi has on her site a listing of the bills President Bush has either vetoed, set to veto or has said he will veto. In his first six years with the rubber stamp Congress he vetoed a total of one bill, Stem Cell Research. Everything else Bush disagreed with, usually parts of bills, he issued his infamous "signing statements.

In May, he vetoed his second bill, the Iraq war spending bill. Now, Bush is set to veto the increase in the Child Health Insurance Bill. The program is set to expire on September 30th. The reasoning given for the veto is: “The proposal would dramatically expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program, adding nonpoor children to the program, and more than doubling the level of spending,” Mr. Fratto said. “This will have the effect of encouraging many to drop private coverage, to go on the government-subsidized program.”

This is not all, however Bush has threatened nearly all of the new Congress' work. Bills either passed or in the works that Bush is threatening a veto:

The College Cost Reduction Act - H.R. 2669
Homeland Security Appropriations - H.R. 2638
State-Foreign Operations Appropriations - H.R. 2764
Interior-Environment Appropriations - H.R. 2643
The Energy Price Gouging Act – H.R. 1252
The No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels (NOPEC) Act - H.R. 2264
FY 2008 Defense Authorization Bill - H.R. 1585
FY 2008 Homeland Security Authorization - H.R. 1684
Hate Crimes Prevention Act – H.R. 1592
D.C. Voting Rights Act – H.R. 1905
Rail and Mass Transit Security Act - H.R. 1401
Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007 - H.R. 1255
Whistle blower Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 - H.R. 985
Reauthorizing Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund - H.R. 720
Employee Free Choice Act - H.R. 800
Requiring Medicare to Negotiate Lower Prescription Drug Prices - H.R. 4

I have been especially tough on Congress since taking office and not holding firm on the promise to end the war, but what are they to do with this kind of opposition with a stroke of the pen? I say stop being a bunch of pansies and start playing hardball. Stop whining the Bush administration doesn't play by the rules and expose them.