Line-Item Veto
The line item veto concept is wonderful; however it assumes that the President is honest, apolitical, fair, just, reasonable and wise. In reality, would it be far-fetched to think that a sitting Democratic President may not be tempted to kill Republican pork, and vice versa, and thus be the ultimate dispenser of pork?
Wouldn’t it be wiser to reform the rules in Congress so that a highway to nowhere in Kentucky cannot be attached to, say, a crime bill? Or institute the “annual congressional pork appropriations omnibus bill” and let the President veto the whole thing?
MANUEL MORENO
La Jolla
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