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In reply to the discussion: 'Monsanto Protection Act': 5 Terrifying Things To Know About The HR 933 Provision [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)have zero to do with politicians and everything to do with how they affect PEOPLE. But Republicans always introduced Bush to the discussions. I guess they thought it would be a distraction from the main issue. Bush to me was merely a tool, so I rarely engaged in 'blaming' him for the awful policies we are still dealing with.
As for this President vetoing the bill, since, as you admit, this rider was not a secret, it was not 'slipped into the bill at the last minute by Republicans' it was well known about for at least one year, the question is NOT why it was not vetoed, one of the questions is 'why was it not stopped from being placed in any bill one year ago. Even if Republicans passed it in Congress, we DO have control of the Senate and a warning to them that if it reached the Senate, it would be stopped, would have enough to make them reveal themselves to the public, to force a conversation about it.
Instead, Democrats just went along with it, they did not even try to stop it, except for two of them that I know of. Tester's amendment did not even get a vote. Democrats voted for it, rather than voting against it which would have made it possible for a veto.
Iow, there was not even a fight, not even a scuffle and now anyone who dares to continue to hold the opinions they always held on this Giant Corporation, are being told they 'hate Obama'. A stupid, ridiculous distraction that does the exact opposite of what is intended, just as it was a stupid, ridiculous distraction when Republicans did the same thing regarding Bush.
What have you learned btw, about Monsanto, from Obama? You were not clear, are you saying you knew nothing about them during the Bush years?