Line Item Veto

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What's with asking for the line item veto in the SOTU? Was he asleep the 8 years before he bacme president?

[Sammy Pepys]

1. I dunno...

...but the line item veto sucks.

[frylock]

2. 911 changed everything

[FloridaPat]

3. He's been asleep since college.

Figures this way he can cut the Democrats favorite projects and keep the repubs pet projects.

[Dudley_DUright]

4. but with Alito et al. on the court

the unconstitutional declared line item veto could be declared un-unconstitutional since Alito seems to be in favor of anything to increase the powers of King George.

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. Bubba used the line item veto 82 times in 18 mos. before it was reversed

and he supported it whole-heartedly.

It'll keep congress from attaching it's own pay raises to bills voted on in the dead of night, as has happened in the past.

[TheVirginian]

7. There's actually a couple of measures....

to amend the Constitution to allow the President a line-item veto on appropriations.

[rurallib]

5. Not sure why he needs it with his "signing statements"

I mean it's like he's already making his own laws anyway and no one does jack shit about it.