[facepalm] Oh, good. Dorothy, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion were lonely.
How about writing sensible bills, and presenting them one at a time, with reasonable time for debate, to be voted on for their own merits or not? Is that good for you? Oh, I'm sorry, apparently not.
The only reason anybody wants or feels they need a line-item veto is exactly because of that kind of bad law writing.
Moreover, it doesn't apply in this case, according to our own legal system. This is a new set of department directives. No Congresscritters anywhere in sight. Who's gonna veto it?
Sorry, but, man, this has nothing to do with line-item legislation. You just need to be philosophically contrary, in much the same way I often need to be -- The Other Side doesn't like it, therefore it must be good. Problem is, real people get hurt with this stuff. And they're being hurt to placate someone else's imaginary friend.
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Date: 2008-08-25 12:04 am (UTC)How about writing sensible bills, and presenting them one at a time, with reasonable time for debate, to be voted on for their own merits or not? Is that good for you? Oh, I'm sorry, apparently not.
The only reason anybody wants or feels they need a line-item veto is exactly because of that kind of bad law writing.
Moreover, it doesn't apply in this case, according to our own legal system. This is a new set of department directives. No Congresscritters anywhere in sight. Who's gonna veto it?
Sorry, but, man, this has nothing to do with line-item legislation. You just need to be philosophically contrary, in much the same way I often need to be -- The Other Side doesn't like it, therefore it must be good. Problem is, real people get hurt with this stuff. And they're being hurt to placate someone else's imaginary friend.