Posted on 05/08/2010 10:55:12 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Obama, you are a tool, amongst other things.
What a clueless crew running this ship of state.
Won’t the Supreme Court just toss it out again?
I don’t get it....this guy claims he studied Constitutional law...
FUBO!!
Just wait. He won’t want to use it only for spending cuts. He’ll want to use it on other things, as well. He wants to have more power, always.
Every President since Madison has been asking for the Blue Pencil.
This guy is clearly too stupid and arrogant to even know that.
Libs here in Minnesota cried (and continue to cry) bloody murder when Gov Pawlenty did a similar thing (called UnAllotment). They are fighting in court over it as we post.
Imagine what would happen if this gets put into place and a future Repub administration starts axing spending like crazy? OHMYFINGGAWD IT’S A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS!!!!!!!1!
In the hands of a normal American president, this “tool” would probably be okay. But in the hands of a Marxist community organizer? I don’t think so.
Line Item Veto - just another one of those things that if fell into the wrong hands would be very bad for the country.
Obama is those wrong hands.
Sadly, they are not clueless. They have their agenda and will use whatever tactics to use it. The clueless folks are those in Congress that let him get away with dissing the constitution. And the people that voted him and the dems in office.
He was "present" during class.
Evidently, "studying" is not part of the Affirmative Action Curriculum.
line item veto?
LOL! They wouldn’t give it to Bush!
Go ahead and make my day — then it can be instated for ANY president. LOL!
Spending cuts are anathema to Obama.
Agreed.
Obama will soon ask for the antithesis of the line item veto. That is, he wants to insert any clause into any bill before he signs it into law. That is the true goal....
he”s trying to get it as a weapon to use against the forthcoming repeal of “Obamacare”
He studied it -- then studied and devised ways to get around it.
IIRC Obama when campaigning said he would go thru every bill that reached his desk.. line by line... if he could not veto them.. what was the sense in this BS he spewed?
Obama would use it to threaten stuff going to Republican districts unless the affected Republicans voted his way.
Basically, he’s asking for authority to cut defense spending because he will not cut entitlements programs since that is his voter base.
“”under which he could propose cuts to a spending measure within 45 days after signing it into law””
As with all other things this bozo does, he can’t KISS. What’s wrong with just plain vetoing the original bill? I’m sure he could be trusted to cut spending AFTER a bill becomes law. Does he think we were ALL born yesterday? Not true - only some were!
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