"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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The major problem with that is the major pork is added as amendments to
very
important spending bills e.g. transportation bill. The Iraq spending
bill,
had something like 80(0?) million in non related pork added. If the
spending bill is passed, the money has to be spent. In the old days,
pre-Nixon the Executive branch just did not spend the money. Was
allocated,
but not spent. Congress (Democrat controlled at the time) went to court
and
got a ruling that required the President (Exec Branch) to spend all
allocated money. So the deficits are Congress's. But the CEO gets the
blame or credit.
Bill


So, in that case the President checks his stones to see that they're still
there (or has
an intern do it for him) and then vetoes the Iraq war bill. Pork and all.
Message to congress: "Send it back up again without all the funny crapola
and
I'll sign it. Or, you guys muster the super majority to override it and
then I
don't want to hear jack squat about the deficit."

And don't forget, its a RW congress at this time. All that pork wouldn't
be in
the bills unless at least some members of the President's own party are in
favor of it. If the RW would simply stick together, it could control
runaway
spending.



Never said that one party had a lock on pork. Is the way of politicos! The
Executive branch needs to go to court to overturn the agreement that allowed
non-germane amendments to be added to a bill. Used to be this way, but part
of the Nixon agreement allowed this rule to be killed.
Bill