Bush pushes for spending control

CNN ^ | Janu8ary 3, 2007

[Constitution Day]

What a hoot!

[Non-Sequitur]

If President Bush believes he will get a line item veto out of his bunch he has totally lost his mind.

If he expects us to believe he's serious about controlling spending then he must think we've lost our's as well.

[Moonman62]

The line item veto is unconstitutional, but since this is nothing more than a comical political stunt, it doesn't matter.

[KC_Conspirator]

Line item veto was pushed by Reagan when he was in office because democrats had so much pork and bad laws hidden in bills put on his desk. The GOP thought it a good idea and gave Klinton the power through law to use the line item veto, which he did. However, some liberal group sued and challenged the line item veto in court and the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.

[Non-Sequitur]

CNN fails to remark on the Earmark spending the Democrats love so much and the need for Earmark Reform that the President proposed

And why wasn't there a need for earmark reform over the last 6 years? Just curious.

[USS Alaska]

Bush control spending? Start with that prescription drug extravaganza?

Is it less expensive to fund medication that prevents hospitalization or not, and then fund the hospital stay? The total cost of the prescription drugs that are funded by the feds need to be weighed against the cost of hospital stays that are prevented.

[Mo1]

Before asking for a line-item veto, first try using the old-fashioned all-or-nothign kind of veto more often to see if that will suffice

You mean like the Bill to fund the military on the WOT where Congress slipped in all kinds of earmarks that had NOTHING to do with the military???

It's an old game Congress likes to play

A line-item veto would have saved the Bill but thrown out all the pork spending

[Mo1]

He has been talking about reform and a line item veto .. no one has bothered to listen to him

I guess it's easier to bash him

[mysterio]

Bush? Spending control? You have got to be kidding.

[billbears]

Bush pushes for spending control

LOL, because it's not the 'right' party in control now he discovers fiscal responsibility. This is a joke

[Mo1]

Ummm .. what are you doing trying to make sense? ;0)

[dirtboy]

You mean like the Bill to fund the military on the WOT where Congress slipped in all kinds of earmarks that had NOTHING to do with the military???

In other words, the members of Bush's OWN PARTY who could not offer sufficient fiscal restraint on a war funding bill to knock off the earmark nonsense? If that isn't as good a reason as any why the public soured on the GOP, I don't know what is.

And the line-item veto has already been shot down by SCOTUS, so short of a Constitutional Amendment, I don't see what Bush is asking for here of having any chance of surviving SCOTUS muster.

[dirtboy]

I guess it's easier to bash him

With his actions in both calling for massive spending and refusing to veto bloated bills, he's handed folks the hammers to hit him with.

By the cratefull.

Ford vetoed something like 90 bills. You don't need a line-item veto - politics doesn't call for a stilleto, it calls for a chainsaw.

[SengirV]

With the way things are "trending" now, I'd rather NOT have a dem with this power as the prez.

[mysterio]

I guess it's easier to bash him

Umm, what? Are you arguing that he's not the biggest spender since Johnson? I think the criticism in this case is pretty fair.

[KarlInOhio]

Ted Kennedy proposes Department of Sobriety.

[Mo1]

However, some liberal group sued and challenged the line item veto in court and the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.

Correct

The new idea for the line item veto is to knock off the pork spending and then send it back for another vote before being passed into law

[KantianBurke]

Since when is it the govt's responsibility to do such things? Ur copy of the Constitution have that "pay for medical care" part in it?

[Mo1]

Forget it .. it's easier for y'all to just bash then to work on a solution

Have fun with the Dem Party

[PhilCollins]

I agree. From 2001 to '04, spending for the Depts. of HUD, HHS, and Education increased at least 28% each. Bush is a hypocrite to say that we should decrease spending, unless he admits that he betrayed thousands of conservatives who voted for him.