Reply #100: This is Gold!

[theFrankFactor]

Bush didn't veto the child health care bill or the research bill because he thinks they are too expensive, or even because he wants that money so he can spend it on warfare and thus kick more cash over to his friends and the others who are his real constituents. Maybe those are bennies in his mind, but neither is the real ballgame.

Bush vetoed that stuff because it would have worked.

Because any government program that shows government being an effective agent for the people has to be stopped at all costs.

Because he's a privatizer, which may very well be the only genuine ideology inside that craven pretzel-dented bone-sack wobbling above his spindly shoulderblades. That's his game.

If a government program is working, it must be smashed, because a functioning government is the best argument on Earth against privatizing everything from medicine to Social Security to the pigeons in the park. He vetoed them because they would have worked, and that can't happen.