It's common in State Constitutions ~ the governors go through and do line item vetos.
We don't have it in the federal constitution.
That makes it unconstitutional. People who keep on top of how legislation, or sausage, is made KNOW THESE THINGS.
McConnell didn't propose something new ~ rather he crafted the same old ideas we had since Nixon, and probably Adams, about Executive involvement in appropriations bills, and he adapted the words to the current situation.
It ain't gonna' happen no how no way ~ and that's true whether it's a good idea or a bad idea.
Used to be a Republican idea. Now it's seen as selling out to the Great Shatan Hissef'.
“It ain’t gonna’ happen no how no way”
I’m not saying it’s probable, but there could be an amendment. Crazier things have been added to the Constitution (mostly by SCOTUS).
“Used to be a Republican idea. Now it’s seen as selling out to the Great Shatan Hissef’.”
Well, yeah. Look who’s president. No doubt libs, regardless of their spending addiction, would be more inclined to support the line-item veto if FDR were president instead of Nixon, Reagan, or Clinton.
I think you’re confusing the issue a bit by focusing on the supposed hypocrisy of RINO-hunters. The issue, to my mind, is that Obama won’t use executive prerogative to cut anything, with or without awesome Nixonian powers. McConnell no doubt knows this. His plan is to lay the blame on Obama when it doesn’t work, which probably won’t work. That’s why the knee-jerk base is going after him.