George Will had a perceptive column on Sunday regarding Barack Obama's gambit to be granted the line-item veto . This is a power to kill individual spending allocations when budgets are presented to the President. The power to do so was given to President Clinton by a Republican Congress with the hope that it would lead to reduced spending. The Supreme Court later ruled it was unconstitutional (merely a piece of parchment to Obama).But now Barack Obama is trying to bring it back to life, presumably with more finely drawn legislation that would pass constitutional muster, especially a court that is becoming more beholden to Obama as he populates its seats. Will sees this quest for the line-item veto as a charade: an appearance of frugality while the reality is that it is a feint that Obama is using to project an image of flintiness as he expands the Brobdingnagian budget.There is another way to view it.The president is a bully (as I have written before ) who is constantly looking...(Read Full Post)