[erode]

I think he will veto it to assert his dominance when his threats to veto are not taken to heart. That or he was bluffing again.

[jbooth]

His threats to veto it guaranteed that the Republicans would all line up behind it.

So we've got the people who've been saying they're libertarians and he's a socialist tyrant for years, and they're determined to give him and the federal government more power. Because he doesn't want it.

[sehugg]

The last full-term President with fewer vetoes was a member of the Whig party.

[niggler]

To be fair, these has been the most unproductive congresses since the 1940s, so take your statistic with a grain of salt.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/28/congress-unproducti...