There is no way to veto that $7 billion. There is no line-item veto. There is also no way to get senators to go along unless you buy them off - you may remember it from your civics classes as "log-rolling."
(If the pork is only $7 billion - or less than 1% of the bill - it would be miraculous. It is probably 10 times that.)
Thus it has always has been; thus it will always be.
Replies to: "Not sure you know how government works, AngryInNJ"
- Consistent with my fair and balanced posting history ...... - conorlarkin - 6:32pm 3/4/09
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- It really is the stuff of Tragic Comedy... or just plain Tragedy - NDIndy - 12:02am 3/5/09
- It comes down tom the fact - dick52 - 11:20pm 3/4/09
- Spot on - Colorado Irish - 11:27pm 3/4/09
- Pelosi and Reid aren't about to accept a pulled pork sandwich. - TakethetrainKnute - 7:33am 3/5/09
- Re:omit the m [NT]
- dick52 - 11:24pm 3/4/09
- Editable subject lines. [NT] - NDFaninNJ - 11:35pm 3/4/09
- Spot on - Colorado Irish - 11:27pm 3/4/09
- I was miffed that they cut my pet pork amendment, a barrel full of monkeys, for the policeman's ball [NT] - StoneFingers - 9:08pm 3/4/09
- This can't be true - Colorado Irish - 7:44pm 3/4/09
- I'm sure Barry just forgot to pack his "scalpel" back in Chicago... - Bettis6 - 8:08pm 3/4/09
- Oh man.... - Hibakusha - 8:12pm 3/4/09
- Hmmm, seems like I need to consider a career in politics. [NT] - Bettis6 - 8:14pm 3/4/09
- Oh man.... - Hibakusha - 8:12pm 3/4/09
- I'm sure Barry just forgot to pack his "scalpel" back in Chicago... - Bettis6 - 8:08pm 3/4/09
- Agreed that these are absurd. But they are also a small portion of the bill.... - Chris94 - 6:58pm 3/4/09
- ...and no different than the pork that the GOP put on during its reign - and puts on now. - Trucker2 - 8:11pm 3/4/09
- Enough about how fucking small they are. It's $7 billion of bullshit Obama promised to veto. - NDFaninNJ - 7:04pm 3/4/09
- Not sure you know how government works, AngryInNJ - Chris94 - 7:09pm 3/4/09
- Wouldn't want to send a message by vetoing the whole thing I guess. [NT] - jabbadoody5 - 8:12pm 3/4/09
- I'm almost certain I read somewhere that Obama was going to change the way Washington did business. - TheIrishHammer - 7:22pm 3/4/09
- New Obama slogan: Hope, but no change. - NDFaninNJ - 7:37pm 3/4/09
- for anyone with a brain - und67 - 8:28pm 3/4/09
- AngryInNJ has a nice ring to it. - jabbadoody5 - 8:13pm 3/4/09
- I think... - NDFaninNJ - 8:37pm 3/4/09
- Fuck off, asshole, - jabbadoody5 - 8:42pm 3/4/09
- My post has nothing to do w/ this thread - Colorado Irish - 11:29pm 3/4/09
- You mean that orange shit they pour over vomit in schools? [NT]
- Hibakusha - 8:51pm 3/4/09
- Yes, the stuff that somehow makes the puke smell worse. [NT]
- jabbadoody5 - 9:08pm 3/4/09
- Only if your'e Catholic schooled [NT]
- Hibakusha - 9:10pm 3/4/09
- ...or Baptist schooled.... - jabbadoody5 - 9:14pm 3/4/09
- The Jesuits make you stay for weekend "JUG". [NT]
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- fredyo - 9:23pm 3/4/09
- From 5th thru 8th grade, I was in a group of fine, young lads responsible for maintaining the - TheIrishHammer - 5:39am 3/5/09
- I went to a Jesuit college and the only Jugs I experienced were on the ladies. [NT]
- jabbadoody5 - 9:27pm 3/4/09
- So you didn't experience the "pleasure" of... - fredyo - 9:30pm 3/4/09
- Are you kidding me? - jabbadoody5 - 9:39pm 3/4/09
- I do hope that, like me, you brushed your teeth first... - fredyo - 9:41pm 3/4/09
- I do have a pretty strong grip... - jabbadoody5 - 9:50pm 3/4/09
- Perhaps, but.... - fredyo - 10:08pm 3/4/09
- I do have a pretty strong grip... - jabbadoody5 - 9:50pm 3/4/09
- I do hope that, like me, you brushed your teeth first... - fredyo - 9:41pm 3/4/09
- Are you kidding me? - jabbadoody5 - 9:39pm 3/4/09
- So you didn't experience the "pleasure" of... - fredyo - 9:30pm 3/4/09
- The Jesuits make you stay for weekend "JUG". [NT]
[LINK]
- fredyo - 9:23pm 3/4/09
- ...or Baptist schooled.... - jabbadoody5 - 9:14pm 3/4/09
- Only if your'e Catholic schooled [NT]
- Hibakusha - 9:10pm 3/4/09
- Yes, the stuff that somehow makes the puke smell worse. [NT]
- jabbadoody5 - 9:08pm 3/4/09
- Fuck off, asshole, - jabbadoody5 - 8:42pm 3/4/09
- I think... - NDFaninNJ - 8:37pm 3/4/09
- Hope, can you spare some change? [NT] - The Woj - 8:10pm 3/4/09
- New Obama slogan: Hope, but no change. - NDFaninNJ - 7:37pm 3/4/09
- Thanks for explaining the unconstitutionality of the line-item veto. There remains a "veto" though. - NDFaninNJ - 7:15pm 3/4/09
- Not sure you know how government works, AngryInNJ - Chris94 - 7:09pm 3/4/09
- Good points. [NT] - conorlarkin - 6:59pm 3/4/09
- $650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi? - The Woj - 6:46pm 3/4/09
- "Just dam"! [NT] - TakethetrainKnute - 7:27am 3/5/09
- wasn't this john edward's .... ahem.... pet project? [NT] - und67 - 8:33pm 3/4/09
