Tyrannical on 12 March 2009
Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and now Obama all wanted line item veto power.
It sounds like a great idea as long as your party is the one in power. Neither the congress nor the states would ever cede this power to the President.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
