01-13-2006, 08:19 PM
kandrathe,Jan 13 2006, 07:41 PM Wrote:Once it is crafted and passed by Congress, and signed by the President it is the law until the same process amends or revokes the law, or the law or parts of it are struck down by the Judiciary.
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Ah, no, that's not what I meant. Let me try again, is it too late for any elected president to start vetoing stuff that Congress sends him with ludicrous or stupid riders attached? And by too late I mean the tradition of passing whatever is sent their way is just too strong to start going against it.
I agree with you on this being not necessarily good and the letter of the law being properly worked before getting to the president signature step, but I think these happenings are a side effect of the way representatives are elected in the US (to get what I mean, the opposite would be Spain, where electoral lists are closed and the congress and senate are filled in the order given in said lists, no matter where the votes to the party come from). In such a system the "internal coherence" inside the parties, so to speak, is smaller, but that's the cost of directly electing your state representatives, which I wish we could do over here.