Bush Wants Line-Item Veto

[toasty]

Worst idea ever. Why would we want to give this clown more power?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/06/bush.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

The absurd thing is that it isn't as if Bush has refrained from passing a law because he was troubled by a particular portion of it -- the guy hasn't vetoed a single bill. All this will do is allow Bush (or any president, for that matter) to unilaterally change any law -- and you can make some pretty radical changes to a law by just striking some provisions, to the point where it may not have the same effect intended by Congress.

Bad idea for any president, IMO, but a really bad idea for Bush, a powermonger and idiot...

For the record, before any of you hop up and down about the fact that Clinton wanted this, too, I was just as strongly against it then, as well.

[Kobe]

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This will be another nice test for the "State's Rights" asshole supreme court. See how well they stuck to those guns in the 2000 election.

[sammwalk]

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hm. yeah, i'm all for it if i trust the pres, which i don't. so in clinton's case, i was for it, but now i'd be against it because i don't want bush screwing things up even more.

well, that's impossible...he's in office for 2 more years, so things are going to get screwed up regardless, but still...

[KinKyJ]

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"Spreading democracy" all over the world while proposing laws like this one... What's next? Proposing a law allowing only parties whose name begins with an R to participate in elections?

Too much power delegated to one office is always a bad idea, no matter who's running the show.

Say, what's Bush doing in the polls lately? Last thing I heard was that his populairty was dropping faster than a brick on speed...

Anywayz, I'm getting some 3M shares I think. Duct tape sales should be on the rise pretty soon

[toasty]

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Say, what's Bush doing in the polls lately? Last thing I heard was that his populairty was dropping faster than a brick on speed...

He's in a bad way -- average of the polls since 2/26 have him at 38.7% approval, 56.7% disapproval, with a low approval of 34% and a high disapproval of 60%.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/bush_ja.html

By way of comparison, on the day Clinton was impeached his approval rating was in the low 60s depending upon what poll you looked at, which spiked to 73% thereafter in one poll.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/20/impeachment.poll/

That's pretty telling, IMO...

[KinKyJ]

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He's in a bad way -- average of the polls since 2/26 have him at 38.7% approval, 56.7% disapproval, with a low approval of 34% and a high disapproval of 60%.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/bush_ja.html

By way of comparison, on the day Clinton was impeached his approval rating was in the low 60s depending upon what poll you looked at, which spiked to 73% thereafter in one poll.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/20/impeachment.poll/

That's pretty telling, IMO...

Thx for the info toasty. Nice overview!

It's pretty telling that a president get impeached for lying about who sucked his dick while another president is scratching his ass while New Orleans gets washed away

[sammwalk]

Re: Bush Wants Line-Item Veto

He's in a bad way -- average of the polls since 2/26 have him at 38.7% approval, 56.7% disapproval, with a low approval of 34% and a high disapproval of 60%.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/bush_ja.html

By way of comparison, on the day Clinton was impeached his approval rating was in the low 60s depending upon what poll you looked at, which spiked to 73% thereafter in one poll.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/20/impeachment.poll/

That's pretty telling, IMO...

i don't care about how popular he is or not. obviously he doesn't either because he ignores everybody...

[superdave]

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Thankfully, I don't see Bush getting this power. They've been trying to pass the President getting the Line-Item Veto power for many years. Let's not let the President get even more power to cause more problems.

[Kobe]

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Too much power, too much for Clinton or Bush. The whole concept for our system of gov is checks and balances. Things are far enough out of wack as it is, we don't need to go and make it any worse.

[thesightless]

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ban gov't IMO. all of them. just kick them all out of office and start over. since carter was elected this country has slowly progressed to 50-50 voting and nothing is working.