Bipartisanship Romney style

In fact, Governor Romney issued more than 800 vetoes during his one and only term as governor of Massachusetts (which was his one and only term in public office). It turns out that most of those vetoes were for budget line items (which, of course, is a power that the President does not have). According to an analysis done by the Boston Globe in June 2007, in an article titled "Ambitious goals; shifting stances," of the 778 override votes taken by the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Romney was overridden 775 times, or 99.6 percent of the time. The Senate overrode Romney 100 percent of the time, often by unanimous votes. According to the Globe, "Early in Romney's term, [the Senate Minority Leader Richard] Tisei and other Republicans generally stood by their governor. But later, they began to desert him with regularity, as Romney's vetoes seemed aimed in part at impressing Republicans outside the state." The speaker of the House at the end of Romney's term told the Globe with respect to overriding Romney's vetoes, ''You didn't even have to debate ..... Even the Republicans voted against him.'' According to the Globe’s analysis: “Of 283 budget veto overrides in 2006 [which was Romney's final year in office], Romney failed to attract a single Republican vote on 81 roll calls in the Senate and 60 in the House.” And if you look at the detailed legislative records, which are posted on the Massachusetts Legislature's website, you will find that even when the Senate override votes that year were not unanimous, there were many times when only one or two Republican senators supported Romney's veto (such as, for example, when then state senator and now Massachusetts' junior U.S. senator Scott Brown cast the only Senate votes to support Governor Romney's calls for reductions in the budget line items for the talking book library at the Worcester public library and the Braille and talking book library in Watertown).

turns out romney is lying once again.

yawn.

Your threads are always so bad.

But there are two vetoes that Mitt Romney made in 2006, his last year in office, that reveal more than anything else he did as governor the man's true character, who he really is, how he really behaved as a government official, and who and what he really stands for. The first veto was cynical and pathetic; the second was cynical, pathetic, and corrupt. And it is the story of those two vetoes that I would like to bring to the attention of the American people.
The first of the two vetoes took place during July of 2006. It was during that month that the Massachusetts Legislature enacted by unanimous roll call votes in both the House and Senate a bill to increase the state’s minimum wage. The bill called for the minimum wage to be increased from $6.75 per hour to $7.50, effective January 1, 2007, and from $7.50 to $8.00, effective January 1, 2008. The proposal to increase the state's minimum wage had been on the table since January 2005, and the amounts of the increases and the decision to phase them in over two years had been the result of a great deal of discussion in the public arena and a great deal of bipartisan debate and negotiation between the two chambers of the Legislature. And in the end support for the bill was not merely bipartisan, it was unanimous.
According to the Massachusetts Legislature's rules all formal business of each two-year session of the Legislature, which begins in January of every odd-numbered year, must be concluded on July 31 of the second annual session. Which means that July of every even-numbered year is invariably a very busy time for the Massachusetts Legislature. And, of course, Mitt Romney was well aware of all of this.
The unanimously-enacted minimum wage increase bill was sent to Governor Romney on July 12, 2006. According to the Massachusetts Constitution, the governor has ten days from when a bill is presented to him to either 1) sign it into law; 2) recommend an amendment to it; 3) veto it, in which case the bill can become law only if two-thirds of the members of both chambers of the Legislature vote to override the veto; or 4) refuse to sign it, in which case the bill becomes law without the governor's approval, provided that the bill was enacted while the Legislature was in formal session.
On July 21, Governor Romney returned the bill to the Legislature recommending that it be amended by limiting the increase to $7.00 per hour, effective January 1, 2007. In his letter proposing the amendment, Romney told the Legislature that the bill's “abrupt and disproportionate increases would threaten to eliminate jobs in Massachusetts, especially at the entry level.”
On July 25, the Legislature rejected Romney’s amendment and reenacted the bill, again by unanimous roll call votes by both chambers.
On July 28, with the last day for the Legislature to conclude its formal business for the year quickly drawing near and with many items still on its agenda to be dealt with before the deadline, Romney vetoed the bill, in spite of the fact that it had been enacted unanimously by both chambers and his veto would obviously be overridden. In his veto message Romney used the word "excessive" to describe the Legislature’s increases.

Damn, even Chesus thinks Obama is going to lose...

Better get a nice soft cushion for your butthurt bottom..