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I blow charts and tables. Here's a good one telling why Peyton has his justified concerns. Now I believe that President Bush has the power of his convictions. He has already sent Michael Bolton back to the Senate but what followed was a media void, so I suspect that he was simply ignored as not to inflame the public. However, I suspect Bush's veto power might simply serve as a tool to keep impeachment proceedings at bay, for all the good it will do him. His big problems is that he is convinced the rats want the best for the country as well. He probably won't give that up until he is convicted in the house and the senate.

President Bush will try to work with the rats as he has done the past 6 years. That will hurt his presidency worse than he can imagine.

Interesting to see that Presidents Monroe and Van Buren have a similar history. I'd like to learn more about their presidencies at the atmosphere at the time.

Presidential Vetos - President Bush at the bottom of the class at time of print.

President	Congresses	Regular Vetoes	Pocket Vetoes	Total Vetoes	Vetoes Overridden
George Washington	1st- 4th	2	.....	2	.....
John Adams	5th-6th	.....	.....	.....	.....
Thomas Jefferson	7th-10th	.....	.....	.....	.....
James Madison	11th-14th	5	2	7	.....
James Monroe	15th-18th	1	.....	1	.....
John Quincy Adams	19th-20th	.....	.....	.....	.....
Andrew Jackson	21st-24th	5	7	12	.....
Martin Van Buren	25th-26th	.....	1	1	.....
William Henry Harrison	27th	.....	.....	.....	.....
John Tyler	27th-28th	6	4	10	1
James K. Polk	29th-30th	2	1	3	.....
Zachary Taylor	31st	.....	.....	.....	.....
Millard Fillmore	31st-32nd	.....	.....	.....	.....
Franklin Pierce	33rd-34th	9	.....	9	5
James Buchanan	35th-36th	4	3	7	.....
Abraham Lincoln	37th-39th	2	5	7	.....
Andrew Johnson	39th-40th	21	8	29	15
Ulysses S. Grant	41st-44th	45	48	93	4
Rutherford B. Hayes	45th-46th	12	1	13	1
James A. Garfield	47th	.....	.....	.....	.....
Chester A. Arthur	47th-48th	4	8	12	1
Grover Cleveland	49th-50th	304	110	414	2
Benjamin Harrison	51st-52nd	19	25	44	1
Grover Cleveland	53rd-54th	42	128	170	5
William McKinley	55th-57th	6	36	42	.....
Theodore Roosevelt	57th-60th	42	40	82	1
William H. Taft	61st-62nd	30	9	39	1
Woodrow Wilson	63rd-66th	33	11	44	6
Warren G. Harding	67th	5	1	6	.....
Calvin Coolidge	68th-70th	20	30	50	4
Herbert C. Hoover	71st-72nd	21	16	37	3
Franklin D. Roosevelt	73rd-79th	372	263	635	9
Harry S. Truman	79th-82nd	180	70	250	12
Dwight D. Eisenhower	83rd-86th	73	108	181	2
John F. Kennedy	87th-88th	12	9	21	.....
Lyndon B. Johnson	88th-90st	16	14	30	.....
Richard M. Nixon	91st-93rd	26	17	43	7
Gerald R. Ford	93rd-94th	48	18	66	12
James Earl Carter	95th-96th	13	18	31	2
Ronald Reagan	97th-100th	39	39	78	9
George Bush*	101th-102nd	29	15	44	1
William J. Clinton	103rd-106th	36	1	37	2
George W. Bush	107th-109th	1	.....	1	.....
Total	............	1485	1066	2551	106