No Line-Item Veto

Not with Obama in office and a Democrat majority in congress. Obama has said there will be NO “earmarks” while I’m in office. Yet the very first major bill passed by his Congress and signed into law by him contains THOUSANDS of “earmarks.” Things like refurbishing the DuPont family yacht. This idea will no more be passed into law than will a new “term limits” law. Power-hungry politicians don’t want ANY limits on their power, nor on the amount of time they can wield it. Think: Teddy Kennedy,” who has been re-elected in "knee-jerk" fashion by his ignorant constituents like clockwork every time he came up for re-election, even after he swam away and left his pregnant girlfriend to die. Hugo Chavez, in Argentina, recently won the election trying to put term limits on him. That means he can run again and again until he is “president for life,” as Teddy is “Senator for life.” His will end soon, but that doesn’t make no term limits any more palatable to the American public, even if politicians like it a lot. There needs to be a national initiative system where such votes don’t have to be voted on by current politicians. Such votes are a conflict of interest for them. With such a system, term limits and line-item vetoes could be FORCED on Congress by the PEOPLE, for whom they work. (Just common sense)