President Bush is pushing for line-item veto authority to bring federal spending under control. Unlike the line-item veto that was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, this version would send the vetoed items back to Congress for an up-or-down vote.
Although it’s no magic bullet for soaring deficits, a line-item veto could be a sensible tool for weeding out some of the special-interest pork in legislation.
But considering that President Bush has never vetoed a single spending bill during his entire presidency, you have to wonder — would he use a line-item veto if he had one?
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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Bush who? Are you talking about his puppeteers? Bush is but a face mask hiding grotesque murderous thugs. AIPAC’s legislation has been so pruned of all decency as to make a line-item veto really unnecessary.
It comes prepackaged…..sign here.
Bush? Veto? Nah! He doesn’t know what a veto is. I’m so surprised he has never exercised it, and by Congress knowing that, they will pass any pork and they know Bush will never Veto it. Line item or not.
But I believe that there has to be a Constitional Amendment for the line item veto power for the President, and I seriously doubt they ever will.
Clinton try to get something like that during his presidency, but it failed in court.
Well the most recent examples of “bush” and “veto” (selling our seaports) should tell us all we need to know here!
It would be like giving a toddler a chainsaw! You fill in your own scary imagery here. I gotta go take a zoloft!
I dont think bush will use the line item veto to make sane budget decisions.
I think dead eye dick and king karl rove will use it to punish those who disagree with them and all the king’s horsemen and all the king’s men.
Too bad they cant put humpty together again. Truth is such a bitch!
Bush trying to control spending?Nobody believes that will happen.
It’s a bit like a wolf guarding the sheep.
If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth…..(Lenin)
We HAD the line item veto under Clinton and the Supreme Court struck it down.
If they could figure out a way to have a line item veto under conservative Presidents and not have one under liberals, we’d probably have one.
Fortunately, that’s too egregious even for this partisan Supreme Court . . .
You forgot to say “yet” PL.
That 370 billion in pork was a collective pay-off for congressional votes for AIPAC and their “patriot act” and 100 plus billion more “war money”.
A war on what? Suspected some-thing-or-others?
They are effectively running this country.
A “conservative president would never have signed that bill.
Easter, Christmas is the best holiday – Or choose your own favorite and create another persuasive speech topic
Not much on my mind right now. Today was a complete loss. So it goes. I’ve just been sitting around waiting for something to happen. I’ve basically been doing nothing , but I guess it doesn’t bother me.