Republicans nonchalantly suggest Bush should have line item veto...

[kentuck]

As if they have forgotten all history since before 9/11, they say they need Bush to make them stop spending like drunken sailors. He has yet to veto one bill and we will have over $4 trillion dollars more in debt when he leaves office, unless by grace of God, he can be persuaded to leave early...

But, have they forgotten that Bill Clinton had the line item veto for a while and the Supreme Court ruled that it was not constitutional for the President to have the powers delegated to Congress or some such rationale? However, they took that power away from Clinton.

Now, as if the Supreme Court and the rule of law have no significance whatsoever, we have Republicans actually proposing that the President should have the line item veto. They can find a way around the law, they say. No doubt, they are very good at that.

[Inland]

1. Bush will use line item to make MORE spending.

He will threaten pork unless the congress caves on, say, SS reform (billions and billions), his star wars and huge navy (tens of billions), his Mars shot (a few hundred million), and of course, tax cuts.

Where every budget is logrolling, Bush will be the log roller supreme, threatening every line until he gets all the spending and tax cuts HE wants and leave congress to pick the deficit.