02-09-2012, 07:05 PM
Acer wrote:
[quote=rjmacs]
[quote=Grace62]
Yet another bad Republican idea on its way to the Senate graveyard.
Like line-item veto! (Which had Obama licking his lips with anticipation, ever hungry to expand executive power.)
Now there's a blast from the past! Funny how no one discusses it anymore. Back in the day it was The Answer to All Our Worries (when the Congress was Democrat and the President Republican, of course.)
Didn't they finally come up with some sort of backdoor line item veto power in the 90s that no one ended up using? (Too lazy to google.)
They gave Clinton the line item veto in 1996, it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1998.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Item_Veto_Act_of_1996