Under which line-item is "shamelessness" funded?

President Bush is requesting line-item veto authority. Well, now we know why his sensible, prudent adminstration has been unable to rein in the wild spenders in Congress. It's not because they have advocated tax cuts as the cure for all economic ills. It's not because they have advocated spend-and-spend solutions to policy issues (eg, Medicare prescription coverage, the energy bill). Nor is it because the president has been unwilling to veto even the most egregious examples of fiscal excess (eg, the transportation bill). No, it's because he, like so many presidents before him, did not have a line-item veto.