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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (227314)	2/14/2002 7:34:37 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769670

I don't think he can add, but doesn't he have line item veto, or is that still in the works? Or did that die the same way campaign finance reform will die, in the courts? I think JLA is right on this one. I don't know the case history of the case he cited, but there is just no way this can be constitutional. The basis for a veto: House Republicans vigorously complained that the Shays-Meehan legislation would create a new opening for both parties to use soft money to pay off campaign debts incurred during the 2002 election cycle. White House officials dropped their previous detachment and joined the chorus of criticism. "The president views this as an unfair, unwise and unwarranted change that makes something that is currently illegal and tries to turn it into something that is legal," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. "And the president believes that this should be removed from the version of the bill that is being considered on the floor." newsalert.com

To: KLP who wrote (227314)	2/14/2002 7:36:02 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769670

I suspect Bush will sign the campaign-finance reform legislation. Why do I say that? Because his people likely have already "conferred" with Scalia, Thomas and the other right-wing Supremes, and have been guaranteed that this won't stand the test of the Big Five. That way GWB fools the American public, comes across as a political reformer, and gets what he wants in the end ... keeping open the big-money GOP pipeline to Big Business. The process is called judicial lawmaking, a practice once abhorred, but now embraced, by the Republican right.