Line-item Veto

From Free Talk Live

Line-item veto is the power of the U.S. President to strike arbitrary provisions from a bill before he signs it. Currently, George W. Bush is pushing for this power. On the surface, it would seem that line-item veto is a good thing as far as libertarians are concerned, because it could result in less frivolous additions to legislation being passed. However, what will really happen is that the executive will use this power to remove civil liberties protections from bills used to fight the so-called War on Terror. Indeed, it is strange to hear George W. Bush, who is the only two-term President to never veto a bill, now ask for this veto power. If fiscal conservatives are concerned about pork-barrel spending, then a much better answer is legislation saying that new bills can only address one particular issue. That, of course, would place restrictions on them, meaning they would never support it.