The Chimperor Demands Line Item Veto Power

[AGiordino]

It wasn't good enough for Clinton when he and Gore were reinventing government, but it's essential to control spending now. EXCUSE ME, but who (WTF) has been doing ALL the SPENDING of LATE like the last 6 years? Our man in the White House, NAPOLEON CHIMPEROR!

from the SFGate:
President Bush is pushing Congress to give him more authority to slice and dice the budget, an idea that's popular with conservatives who think the White House needs more muscle to restrict federal spending.

"Under the current system, many lawmakers are able to insert funding for pet projects into large spending bills," Bush said in his Saturday radio address.

Bush says this leaves lawmakers with two bad options: They can vote against an entire bill even though it contains worthwhile spending, or they can vote for a bill even though it includes money for special-interest projects.

"The president is left with the same dilemma — either he has to veto the entire bill, or sign the bill and approve the unnecessary spending," Bush said, adding that governors in 43 states have line-item veto authority.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/06/24/national/w070838D74.DTL

It just breaks my brokeback heart that this poor man doesn't have all the tools he needs

TO BE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL F'ing TYRANT.

Ooops. Damn. I fell off my soapbox.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. *'s list of line-item veto must-haves:

1. Defund Head Start
2. Defund PBS
3. Defund EPA
4. Defund Department of Education
5. Defund "pet projects" provided they're in democratic states and/or congressional districts.

[halobeam]

3. Yeah... he lost his "political captiol" to spend...(like he had it)

he has no more money to spend... he's bored and he's insane. Bad combo. Now he wants to make more trouble. That's what idiots do when bored. He's completely untrustworthy and I will just NOT hold my breath for him to do anything remotely understandable, let alone responsible. LOL.. it's actually absurd to think otherwise.

[Kagemusha]

2. Uh, didn't the Supreme Court shut this down years ago?

Why is this back? It's been ruled unconstitutional hasn't it?

[tnlefty]

9. Roberts and ALIEto perhaps?

Just a couple of thoughts with the latter thinking an all powerful, unitary executive is just what is in order.

[Xeric]

4. does anyone think he'd veto Republican pork?

If Commander Cokehead has a line item veto, what exactly do we need a congress for?
Thanks to my supposedly Democratic congresslady Melissa Bean for voting for this. I didn't think democracy would work anyway.

[rusty charly]

5. it's been renamed

the "who gets to play in the sandbox" amendment

[havocmom]

6. If his 'signing statements' are as OK as Alberto says they are...

why does he need a line item veto? Alberto and the rest of the bobble heads all say bush can re-invent the laws passed by Congress with his Signing Statements, where he picks and chooses what will be obeyed and what won't. If that is kosher, why does he need some special magic marker to doodle on bills with?

Oh, yeah! BECAUSE WHAT HE HAS BEEN DOING ISN'T LEGAL. They are just hoping nobody notices until they get the loop-holes installed.

[shadowknows69]

7. So eliminate the law that allows

unrelated riders to a bill.

[Triana]

8. That little beady-eyed pissant...

...needs to have ALL POWER TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM -- not to be given MORE of it -- in ANY form. He and his administration needs to be SHUT DOWN and rendered powerless until we can vote their asses out (IF that's even possible anymore).

[dweller]

10. so?

he also wanted an immigration bill/law passed.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2355055

too bad Emperor *Moron.
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