President Obama pledged to go through the federal budget and end wasteful spending by eliminating all items that were wasteful.  Sounds like a great idea–but it’s unconstitutional–the President does not have the power of line-item veto.  Budget matters are supposed to be left to Congress.  This is a promise that cannot be legally kept. 

If President Obama went through the budget and elimiated all ‘pork’, the stimulus bill would have been about $300,000–not $800,000!