Reply #69: Is the Line Item Veto [View All]

[jbnow]

being proposed only for budget items?

I'd want to know so many more details, though it's not my decision anyway.

We can talk about pork, of course people are against that. But bush has tried to cut or zero out funding for the programs like Community Development Block Grants in HUD every year and congress has reacted to pressure from local and state governments and activist groups and ignored bush's demands and funded them. That's just one example. Congress has been bad for the lower classes, students and all that but the president consistently wants them to be worse.

For every bridge to nowhere he might veto there will be thousands who can't afford college, shelter, a new furnace, heating assistance, day care and all the other things bush thinks wastes money.

So...this depends on how the veto works, what comes back to congress and what kind of vote it takes. I would like to hear more about why any Democrat would want him to have this power. There might be good reasons, but they better explain them.