Posted on 01/03/2007 7:46:07 AM PST by KantianBurke
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Wednesday asked the Democratic-controlled Congress to give the White House line-item veto power to control spending.
As he prepares to deal with an opposition Congress for the first time, Bush is also asking lawmakers to extend tax cuts.
Bush made the requests in a Rose Garden statement and in an opinion column published in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal.
The line-item veto would allow the president to cut specific spending from legislation without vetoing the entire bill.
In the opinion piece, Bush warned that the Democrat-controlled Congress risks stalemate if it resorts to "politics as usual" and tries to "pass bills that are simply political statements."
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POTUS "Please"
Congress "No"
Let the games begin.
Has Hell frozen over???????????
Gawd, that's almost like Jeffrey Dahlmer pushing for a vegetarian diet.
Dear President Bush:
Before asking for a line-item veto, first try using the old-fashioned all-or-nothign kind of veto more often to see if that will suffice.
Why start now W? Should have been worried about spending for the last 6 years.
Bush control spending? Start with that prescription drug extravaganza?
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Say... hasn't this "line item veto" issue come up again and again? It seems like I remember years ago that the general consensus was that Presidents had it, they just couldn't use it, or something bizarre like that. What's the deal with that? Can someone tell me in very short words, because it's early and I'm barely with it.
This is funny. If President Bush believes he will get a line item veto out of his bunch he has totally lost his mind.
Better to start late than not start at all...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Congress tried granting this power in the 1990s, Clinton tried using it, and SCOTUS said no dice - Congress could not give away its enumerated powers without a Constitutional Amendment.
Ah, let's see George. A half a trillion in Iraq, wanted ten billion for unemployment for Iraqis, secretly tripling aid to Africa, secret Social Security benefits for illegal Mexicans, American troops in Somalia. It's not girls gone wild, it's George gone wild.
I know, Milk just shot out of my nose!!!!!
The biggest government spender since LBJ ask for spending limits? LOL.
You know Bush will sign Democrat-passed bills that give amnesty to millions of illegals and create a guest-worker program. And those bills will end up costing us billions upon billions of dollars.
In 1998 the Supreme Court ruled that line item veto was unconstitutional. I don't know if that is what you were trying to recall.
Stop him before he spends again!
CNN fails to remark on the Earmark spending the Democrats love so much and the need for Earmark Reform that the President proposed
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