Don't Get Your Hopes Up
Via Glenn Reynolds:
Rep. Mark Udall has joined Republican budget hawks on legislation
that would give the White House new authority to pare congressional
spending bills. . . .It would authorize the president to pull specific items out of
massive appropriations bills and then force Congress to hold up-or-down
votes on the proposed cuts. It would apply to fiscal year 2006 spending
bills, plus the huge, multiyear transportation plan that critics have
said is loaded with wasteful, pork barrel projects.
Doesn't mean a thing. A) Congress will never pass it. B) There is no evidence that Bush cares one whit about spending control and C) There is absolutely no evidence that Bush is willing to veto anything out of Congress, since he already holds the veto pen rust award.
