Line Item Veto

I've always felt that the line item veto is a partisan tool, regardless of the fact that it unjustly weights the balance of power to the executive.

Too little too late, W. Maybe if you had rammed it through in the middle of your first term you'da had it. As it looks now, the writing's on the wall that you're going to lose the midterm election and this is what you're doing to protect the power that you have now. It reeks of defeat. It's a justly deserved defeat too.