I love that she’s pro-life and shows it in word and deed.
I love that she’s a reformer who took on the establishment and won.
But more than anything, I love this. She vetoed a law she agreed with because it was unconstitutional. And that is the first and most important job of the government: to uphold the Constitution. Can you imagine if that attitude takes hold in Washington? I think the entire Eastern seaboard might implode.
*To note how important this is to me, the only real yell-at-each-other (okay, mainly me yelling at him) fight I’ve ever had with MTG was over unconstitutional actions by the government.
Update: I just remembered this from my stalled Presidential Biography Project. (I got stuck on Van Buren, whom I have to recheck to finish. That guy was as exciting as dry toast.) Anyway, according to the Andrew Jackson biographer, Jackson was the first president to veto legislation solely because he disagreed with the policy. Prior to Jackson, the president only vetoed legislation he considered unconstitutional, the prevailing political theory being that the legislature makes the laws, the executive enforces the laws and maintains the defense. Separation of powers and all that nonsense. Jackson changed all that. I wonder what would happen if we changed it back?
