Reply #11: I believe it would give the Executive Branch immense power... [View All]

[rasputin1952]

right to the point where anything he/she would feel politically expedient to veto, would be just linjed out of a Bill.

The Founders knew full werll that some dim bulbs might well occupy the Executive Mansion, and that politics pervades every aspect of out society. They also knew that royalty had a LIV to an extent in Europe, and that proved disastrous for the countries said royalty ruled over.

Givign bush, or any future president such power goes far beyond what most of us would call "principled". The problem is w/congress and the whole earmarking situation and bad legsilature. There is no way an idiot like bush could fix this w/a LIV, and the future would be even more precarious, as we have no notion as to what some other, less that bright individual might do.