LaRouche: It's Time for an "Unnecessary President Act"!

May 26, 2010 (LPAC)—This week, President Obama spoke out against "unnecessary" government spending, and is sending to Congress a bill through which he intends to exert yes-or-no power over whether any Congressionally-passed spending authorization will be carried through or not. In effect, it is Obama's attempted imperial revival of the "line-item [budget] veto," which was declared unconstitutional in 1998 by the Supreme Court.

The title of the newly proposed Presidential authority to make such cuts is, the "Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2010."

Lyndon LaRouche pointed out yesterday, that "It's time for an 'Unnecessary President Act'"! We've had necessary presidents, such as Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. But Obama is unnecessary. It's urgent that he should go.

Obama's "Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2010" would have three features: First, it would require that a package of proposed rescissions be submitted within 45 days after the final passage of an appropriations bill. Second, Congress would not be permitted to amend the package of cuts. Third, the House and Senate would face time limits for debate, which would guarantee the President's cuts getting an up or down vote quickly.

Obama's Budget Director, Peter Dirtbag, dissimulated on a conference call with reporters yesterday that, "Here, we are trying to find a way for the President to give the knife back to Congress."

But Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W VA), for one, has already denounced the Obama/Orszag power-play. His statement against the proposal said, "Congress has the constitutional authority over the power of the purse and I am not in favor of yet another attempt at a power-grab by a chief executive."

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