Call his bluff!
Hasn’t the line-item veto been ruled unconstitutional?
McCain! You friggin IDIOT!
He’ll only use it to punish conservatives!!!
i wonder how he is going to create a constitutional line item veto considering that the Supreme Court has already said that a line item veto is a violation of the separation of powers.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
“”I think the president understands now how serious this problem is, that it requires hatchets and scalpels. It requires a hatchet to get the budget under control and it requires a scalpel to eliminate wasteful and unnecessary spending,” McCain said.”
McAmnesty doesn’t care how much money is wasted...as long as it’s wasted on his PET projects. He’s just grandstanding..again!
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Bill to improve health care…in Mexico! McCain strikes again!
What would Americans think, then, of a member of Congress who introduced legislation, not to improve health care in the United States, but to improve health care in Mexico?
Insane? Drunk? Unworthy of public office?
What would Americans think, then, of a bill introduced in Congress that required federal agencies to come up with a plan, not to expand health coverage in the United States, but to expand health coverage in Mexico?
Impossible? Unthinkable? Wildly irresponsible?
What would Americans think, then, of the motives of a senator, who not only introduced a bill to improve Mexico’s health care system and extend coverage to a growing population of 120 million people, but gave health insurance companies the right to help devise the plan?
Blatantly corrupt? Grossly indifferent to the well-being of the American people? Downright treasonous?
Unbelievable as it may seem, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 contained a provision giving insurance companies the right to help devise a plan for extending US health care to Mexico (Sec. 1004. BINATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AND HEALTH INSURANCE).
Even more unbelievable, the senator who sponsored the bill is not on the verge of being thrown out of office for this odious piece of legislation. No, the senator who introduced the bill, Senator John McCain of Arizona, is on the verge of locking up the Republican nomination to be our next president[snip]
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=john+mccain+fred+thompson
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 12, 2005
Mr. MCCAIN (for himself, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. GRAHAM, and Mr. SALAZAR) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
TITLE X—PROMOTING ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
Sec. 1001. Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
Sec. 1002. Prohibition against offset of certain Medicare and Medicaid payments.
Sec. 1003. Prohibition against discrimination against aliens on the basis of employment in hospital-based versus nonhospital-based sites.
Sec. 1004. Binational public health infrastructure and health insurance.
http://opensourceactivist.org/content/legislation/S1033/text.php#sec1004
I say the GOP should go for this, even offer the whole caucus in both houses to vote in support of such an amendment.
http://www.cato.org/testimony/ct-sm032300.html
Interesting commentary on LIV.
McCain involved in this one too.
Interesting how when Reagan wanted this, no one in congress was interested.
I think this might be brilliant. Offer up a Line Item Veto to Zero....That makes HIM totally responsible, not the Congress. And, its not like the Republicans are going to get anything passed into a bill anyway, so there’s not going to be too many pet projects taken away from Reps to start with. Then, when we get a conservative in there, bar the door Katy, lets start with some serious cuts!
Yes, Juan....let’s just give this Dictator a line-item veto, just when we are about to retake the Senate and/or House, and let’s just give him the power to negate ANY power we might gain from this....jeeessssshhhh....people wonder now why the hell anyone, even a Republican, listens to you any more...go away and fade off into the sunset.. you’ve outlived what good you’ll do in this world.
Constitutional or not, Obama is the last president who should be given a line item veto. Just look at how his nitwit attorney general uses his discretion: letting off 100% guilty black panther voter intimidators, Mirandizing a terrorist who was singing like a bird. And they’d use a line item veto just as stupidly.
And I think Juan McCain might be overplaying his hand. The challenge from JD really has the little backstabber fired up, and the voters might not be as impressed with some of his recent maneuvers as he expects.
Lame Duck and Crazed Duck come up with an idea.
Either you think a line item veto is a good idea or you do not.
Either you think the line item veto is Constitutional, or you disagree.
Such positions should be irrespective of who is currently and temporarily occupying the Oval Office.
Congress finally passed it as a law, under Clinton. Clinton used it once. Then the Supreme Court ruled that the line-item veto could only be established by a constitutional amendment.
McCain is only ten years behind the curve on this. Fool that he is.
John / Billybob
The line item veto is GOOD - we WANT that
All it can ever be used for is cutting spending
Yes a democrap may occasionaly weild it, but thats OK you gotta take the good with the bad
Why is John always reaching across the aisle? How come the Dems don’t reach across the aisle?
The freeze idea is idiotic. It is meaningless.
