“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.
The knee-jerk base knows when they are being suckered. Sequestration was stupid, Nixon was required by the court to spend every nickel that congress appropriated.
No matter how clever you think Mitch is, it was a terrible publicity disaster, unless like Obama he just thinks the people are too stupid to understand it.
Mitch has said all along, no one is suggesting that we are not going to raise the debt limit. How does that statement enhance your bargaining power? How does it help the house. You know that newly elected majority that was elected to shut down the spending. That same group that Mitch and his former buddy Trent Lott said they must marginalize before they gained any power.
Sell the genius move cr@p to people that haven’t lived through all these genius deals.
Communists always take two steps forward and when caught take one step back. That is exactly how we got here.
They are wrong. I don't particularly care one way or the other. After all, hypocrisy is mostly in the mind of the observer ~ .
I simply pointed to a historic fact. Some of us remember Nixon. Some of us don't. McConnell's words are just a little different but the concept is that the Executive should, or could, be included in expenditure trimming post appropriations act.
Obviously the Democrats didn't want Nixon or Reagan to have that power. Obviously you don't want obama to have that power.
The trick in McConnell's approach is that the President doesn't get to have an increase in the debt limit unless he signs legislation reducing spending in specific areas.
Such legislation would not get to him without the House and Senate approving it.
I don't think it can ever happen at the federal level without some sort of revision to the Constitution.