Obama said he is going line by line through the budget and Xing out things that are not important. But the line item veto concept, pushed by Republicans for years, has not been approved.

The first item he says he will kill is farm subsidies – at least for “the rich.” But when Pres Bush vetoed the farm bill, Obama said that was a terrible thing to do and voted to override the veto.

We need to keep in mind that the first principle in dealing with these people is to give them enough rope to hang themselves.