To: dcrider182
What's a Live Item Veto--the President gets to veto any item in the budget involving living things?
Is everyone here having a group nervous breakdown over these "We're doomed!" articles being posted?
2 posted on
10/14/2006 5:23:07 PM PDT by
Darkwolf377
(Republican, atheist, pro-life)
To: dcrider182
Oh--there's the dreaded 'alot'.
You're really a dope. I'd use a live-item-veto on you....
4 posted on
10/14/2006 5:25:47 PM PDT by
Cogadh na Sith
(There's an open road from the cradle to the tomb.)
To: dcrider182
If you've opened this thread it means that you agree with the topic and you want to know "what can I do about it?" Hello, what? I opened this thread to see what you had to say, not to agree to some kind of contract.
5 posted on
10/14/2006 5:27:12 PM PDT by
Jean S
To: dcrider182
Congress will use THEIR line item veto and strike that particular provision from the bill, denying the president of the same power. If congress has strong feelings on a particular issue that the president vetoed, they can always overide his veto by a 2/3 majority vote.
6 posted on
10/14/2006 5:27:28 PM PDT by
Iam1ru1-2
To: dcrider182
Did a moose bite your sister?
7 posted on
10/14/2006 5:29:13 PM PDT by
nopardons
To: dcrider182
Clam down. The live item veto will previal.
9 posted on
10/14/2006 5:30:56 PM PDT by
small voice in the wilderness
(The dems. can't have a fool-proof plan. There would be no one left in their base.)
To: dcrider182
Hi FRPFriends. If you've opened this thread it means that you agree with the topic and you want to know "what can I do about it?" Actually, no ... I opened the thread to see if you were a troll.
By the way, it's Lie, Nitemv, Eto.
11 posted on
10/14/2006 5:32:12 PM PDT by
r9etb
To: dcrider182
If you want the government's nose out of your everday life, get rid of the New Deal Commerce Clause.
14 posted on
10/14/2006 5:38:51 PM PDT by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: dcrider182
The statement is correct that possession of the line item veto by Presidents, a power possessed by most Governors, would drastically improve the federal government. (In the right hands, however.)
The article is dead wrong to criticize the Supreme Court for striking down the legislatively-created line item veto. The powers of the President are as granted by the Constitution. Congress has no power to amend the Constitution. (Neither does the Supreme Court, either.)
Therefore, to create the needed line item veto it is necessary to amend the Constitution.
Congressman Billybob
Latest article: "An Open Letter to President Bollinger"
Please see my most recent statement on running for Congress, here.
To: dcrider182
What worries me about the Line-Item Veto is some Dem president using it against a weak-kneed Republican Congressman or fifty. "Vote for Hillarycare or your earmark gets LIV'd." It could end up costing more than it saves in the hands of a Dem president.
To: dcrider182; Iam1ru1-2; nopardons; Congressman Billybob
"It started with not having the ability for Line-Item-Veto's"
No, it started with having paid humble public servants that were neither humble nor truly serving the public--and a fickle, instant-gratification-desiring public...thousands of years ago. The Republic of Eden, or Plato's Republic, or something like that.... ;^)
Line Item Vetoes are useful--and depending on who has the power to use it--potentially excellent. But if we have a Republican Congress and Hillary steals the '08 Presidential election, the L.I.V. would be a very bad thing. It cuts two ways.
Welcome to FR.
29 posted on
10/14/2006 8:27:09 PM PDT by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
To: dcrider182
31 posted on
10/15/2006 7:08:55 AM PDT by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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