Very true about the pocket veto, and I've said this to my team before - I can give advice, I can argue for my values, but my lever as a manager is hire or fire.

Very true about the pocket veto, and I've said this to my team before - I can give advice, I can argue for my values, but my lever as a manager is hire or fire. I don't have time to do the implementation, and the person doing the implementation realistically is going to decide the inplementation. I can influence, but really, they decide.