The Bush veto and the threat to veto has stopped the democrats in their tracks. They don't have the power to override the will of the beast. The democrats have not gotten any help from the obstructionist republican representatives so far, in any effort to thwart the veto pen or the threats from Bush. The GOP in congress are still for the most part, in lockstep with Bush on about every single issue that comes to the floor. PLEASE don't blame the getting nothing done and the "gridlock"(Greedlock) in Washington on the democrats. Blame the nasty self serving pen of G W Bush and blame his little crony duckies in a row in the GOP congress.
President Bush's Rare Veto
Mark Knoller is a White House Correspondent for CBS News.
It’s only the fourth time that Pres. Bush has used his veto power to block a bill. Though the children’s health insurance measure passed by a veto-proof margin in the Senate, Republican leaders in the House assure him the veto will be sustained there. It would bring Mr. Bush’s record on the veto scoreboard to 4 vetoes cast, none overridden.
He has far fewer vetoes to his name that any of his recent predecessors. In fact you have to go back to James Garfield in 1881 to find a president who cast fewer.
And all of Mr. Bush’s vetoes have come in his second term. He cast none during his first five years in office. During all of that time, republicans were in control of Congress.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/10/03/couricandco/entry3324463.shtmlBush Has Threatened to Use the Veto 40 Times, but Never Has--What's Up?
http://hnn.us/articles/6190.htmlDemocrats begin push to override veto of kids health insurance bill
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/bush.veto/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemailEDIT...Next time a GOPer DUMMY tells you that the democrats in congress have done "NOTHING," point out the record of the GOP obstructionists in congress and explian to the dummy the power of their pResident's veto pen, ASAP!