Obama plans to ask for tool similar to line-item veto to cut spending

The Hill ^ | 5/8/10 | Walter Alarkon

[Thank You Rush]

“”Four years ago, then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he likes “the line-item veto about like I like a bad sore throat.””

Or how about as much as he likes being unemployed!

[HighlyOpinionated]

Wanna bet that every earmark for a “RED STATE” gets line item vetoed, but none of the “Blue States” do?

[Honcho Bongs]

Obama studied Constitutional law for the purpose of trying to subvert it. “Know your enemy” in other words.

[pillut48]

Heck, HolyO, why not just the whole legislative process and make up your own laws and rules and regulations, for the good of the country??

You know, like Chavez and Castro do? /sarc

[PubliusMM]

He’s already got ultimate rescission authority...it’s called a “veto”.

Marxist-in-charge wants a way to tweak and fiddle in even more areas where there is NO Constitutional authority.

It’s time to take back the country. Stopping this gasbag is a good first step.

[tobyhill]

Smoke and Mirrors. He has the power equivalent to the Line Item Veto now, it's called the Veto. Veto the spending bills and send it back to congress till they take out the pork.

[Repeal The 17th]

The man thinks he is the king, not the president.
The main stream media and many of my fellow countrymen agree with him.

[EGPWS]

"With soaring deficits, we need more tools to stop unnecessary and wasteful spending that Congress has so far been unwilling to give up," Feingold said in a statement.

Russ, one tool "a voting booth".

You lazy, yet arrogant SOB!

[Hoodat]

Ask for it? Why doesn’t he simply sign an exective order granting himself that power just like he does with everything else?

[EGPWS]

The White House is proposing the new power to cut spending as Democrats try to grapple with large deficits,...

I'm confused, isn't it the White House and Congress that have been doing all the spending that put us in this predicament, against the will of the public, in the first place?

[Oldpuppymax]

More POWER for Hussein! Now doesn’t THAT give you a nice, warm feeling of security??!!

[Brad from Tennessee]

[He has also called for a three-year freeze on discretionary spending unrelated to national security.]

Hopefully Obama will get his “spending freeze” after November.

[Vendome]

Devil Worshipin, Satanic Inspired, Communist!

[NormsRevenge]

lol,, Let’s not confuse the issue with facts, OK 8-?

[EGPWS]

lol,, Let’s not confuse the issue with facts, OK 8-?

I'll cool it for a bit. ; )

[NormsRevenge]

Okie doke.. first round is on me..

It’s Saturday Night Racing at Darlington.. better make it double. ;-)

[Blood of Tyrants]

Obastard is always looking for a way around the constitution.

[shanover]

I second FUBO!

[savedbygrace]

His thinking is the same as for any of the Marxist ideas he wants to enact. That is, the reason they’ve never worked any time they’ve been tried before is because they just didn’t so it right.

And of course, he’ll do it right, he’s convinced.

[Nachum]

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