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Kirk calls for new controls on federal spending (RINO wants to give Obama line-item veto power)
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| 2010-09-03
| Chris Wills
Posted on 09/04/2010 7:09:06 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk called for new measures Thursday to limit federal spending, including giving the president the power to veto specific programs.
The Illinois Republican also said he would back a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget and a “super-majority” vote before Congress could approve excess spending.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: diablo; il; markkirk; markkirktruthfile; mccain; rino; rinos4obama; senate
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To: BillyBoy; Impy; fieldmarshaldj
Mark Kirk is a total RINO.
No wonder McCain loves him.
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:10:51 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: rabscuttle385
Republicans and conservatives have wanted the line item veto for years.
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:13:32 PM PDT
by
earlJam
To: rabscuttle385
Kirk’s just serving his Combiner master, Emperor Zero.
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:14:07 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: earlJam
Republicans and conservatives have wanted the line item veto for years.Yet Kirk elects to propose such a thing during the first two years of the Marxist's reign.
EPIC FAIL.
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:15:46 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: rabscuttle385
Giving Obama line item veto power makes about as much sense as having a fox guard the hen house.
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:15:56 PM PDT
by
True Grit
To: rabscuttle385
We don’t want a balanced budget. We want one with spending limited to a small, fixed percentage of GDP. When bad policy hurts the economy, the politicians get a cut in their resources.
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:16:21 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: rabscuttle385
Obama is going to veto government spending? Yeah right.
Well, when it comes to the military...
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:18:18 PM PDT
by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes right)
To: All
To veto “excess” spending, doesn’t the One need an actual budget to define what is excess?
Has Congress passed a real budget yet?
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:20:51 PM PDT
by
az_gila
(AZ - one Governor down... we don't want her back...)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:23:24 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord)
To: rabscuttle385
The Line Item Veto has been a Republican idea and was included in the Contract for America.
It was a good idea in 1994 and is a good idea today, no matter who is president.
How can you pass a law that applies only to presidents of your party and not the other one?
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:23:24 PM PDT
by
earlJam
To: earlJam
Not 100% but I think I recall (always risky) that the whole line item thing was unconstitutional and therefore out of the question......well, not that the current crowd really cares about stuff like that...
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:24:15 PM PDT
by
onona
(dbada)
To: earlJam
it is a good idea and would make it easier to track accountability in our ruling class. no more obfuscation
To: rabscuttle385
Conservatives really need to encourage a veto-proof majority of conservative Congresspersons for ‘11 and beyond, so that Obama’s powers are profoundly limited!
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posted on
09/04/2010 7:27:54 PM PDT
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
To: rabscuttle385
Bloomberg has endorsed him too and contributed to his campaign.
To: rabscuttle385
DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even though this dumba$$ is in charge we need this.
There is almost NOTHING bad you can do with it
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posted on
09/04/2010 8:09:20 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Physically unable to proofreed (<---oops! see?))
To: Mr. K
Even though this dumba$$ is in charge we need this. There is almost NOTHING bad you can do with it
Yeah!
Forget about that silly Constitution and the whole separation of powers thing. It's so old-fashioned!
Give the POTUS control over EVERYTHING!
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posted on
09/04/2010 8:12:32 PM PDT
by
TChris
("Hello", the politician lied.)
To: Mr. K
Line item veto for the president was made unconstitutional via the SCOTUS: Their rational for refusing it was that without everything that is in the budget, it may not have been passed and the president takes it as it is and signed or rejects as whole...
To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; PhilCollins; chicagolady; ChicagoConservative27; rabscuttle385; ...
=================================
MARK KIRK TRUTH FILE
JUST SAY NO TO SOCIALISM
" "The GREENEST candidate in the race... better than Barack Obama!"
- Carol Calabresa/The Sierra Club, 2008
" The strength of our campaign remains the Democrats"
- Mark Kirk, 2008
Freepmail me to get ON or OFF this list.
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posted on
09/06/2010 1:29:36 PM PDT
by
BillyBoy
(Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
To: rabscuttle385
U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk called for new measures Thursday to limit federal spending, including giving the president the power to veto specific programs. YIKES! The thought of Obama with more power just scares the living SHAT out of me! WTF is Mark Kirk thinking?
(Rhetorical question of course...)
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posted on
09/06/2010 1:32:49 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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