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Obama on Balancing the Budget
Obama: "I will go through the federal budget line by line."
Sounds good, but I'll believe it when I see Staples delivering a gross of highlighters to the Oval Office.
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|8.28.08 @ 10:52PM|#
So, he's going to go through the federal budget line by line and do what, exactly? Increase every item by 20%?
-jcr
memphisto|8.28.08 @ 10:52PM|#
If the last 15 years are any indication, they seem to do a better job than the Republicans.
That GOP fiscal responsibility thing is as dead as Goldwater.
|8.28.08 @ 10:58PM|#
As he said that I jumped out of my chair and yelled at the tv: "You do not have a line item veto!!!"
Doesn't Obama have staff to explain to him that the president does not have the legal authority to go over the federal budget line by line? Is he stupid? Or does he think I am?
shrike|8.28.08 @ 11:01PM|#
With 60 Senators he may as well have the line-item veto.
btw - THANKS Reason guys... the coverage was partly cynical and partly humorous. Well done - but Jon Stewart has nothing to worry about.
memphisto|8.28.08 @ 11:32PM|#
Fishfry, doesn't the line item veto refer to legislation? I think the president delivers a budget to congress.
|8.28.08 @ 11:41PM|#
Obama: "I will go through the federal budget
line by linelike a dose of salts."KipEsquire|8.29.08 @ 7:18AM|#
Until Charlie Rangel, David Obey and Robert Byrd decide to take away his line-item crayons.
|8.29.08 @ 8:08AM|#
I think the president delivers a budget to congress.
Yes, he does.
Salvius|8.29.08 @ 1:54PM|#
Whoever does it, that job requires a gross of black Sharpies, not highlighters...