Thanks for the fodder. If you like Tony Snow so much, what do you make of this?
"Begin with the wimp factor. No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives. Nearly 57 months into his administration, President Bush has yet to veto a single bill of any type. The only other presidents never to issue a veto -- William Henry Harrison and James Garfield -- died within months of taking office.
The budget has grown nearly 50 percent on his watch, and he is vying to become the most free-spending president ever. To date, he has not asked Congress to rescind even a penny in profligate spending (even Bill Clinton requested more than $8 billion in rescissions, and Ronald Reagan sought upward of $80 billion).
When he drew a line in the sand earlier this year on transportation spending, Congress boldly appropriated an additional $30 billion. He approved the bill, effectively placing a "kick me" sign on his backside.
There's more. He infamously signed the campaign-finance-reform bill that has made a mess of national politics, hoping the courts would issue the veto for him.
He defended himself against baseless charges of racism in the wake of Hurricane Katrina by whimpering, "Guilty," during a nationally televised speech from Jackson Square in New Orleans.
He surrendered meekly when Democrats laid waste to his faith-based initiative, held hands with Sen. Edward Kennedy when Congress turned his educational reforms into an excuse to enlarge the federal government's role in local education and shrugged it off when character assassins took down such judicial nominees as Miguel Estrada.
This kind of behavior has given the impression that George W. Bush is more eager to please than lead, and that political opponents can get their way if they simply dig in their heels and behave like petulant trust-fund brats, demanding money and favor -- now!"
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