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Spurs 103, Lakers 96

By Neil Stevens (#1) at 07:38 AM PST on Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Well, you can't win them all, but the Lakers put up a good fight. The Lakers won the first and fourth quarters by a combined 14 points, helped in large part of course by Kobe who had 43 overall.

The Spurs are just too deep, though. If their starters don't do it, reserves like Michael Finley will. Being able to get 21 points from a bench player is nice.

Sacramento and Utah were idle, so the Lakers' lead over them only drops to 1.5 games.

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The Return of the Line-Item Veto

By Neil Stevens (#1) at 07:40 AM PST on Tuesday, March 07, 2006

The good news: President Bush has asked the Congress to submit a new kind of line-item veto. He points to a new proposal that only requires a majority vote by the Congress to 'override' the fake veto of selected appropriations.

The idea is that, because there is no supermajority requirement, the courts might agree that the law is Constitutional because the plan actually doesn't transfer any power from the Congress to the President. I'm skeptcal of that explanation myself, but if this works out I can live with it.

The bad news: the Washington Times has captured Rep. Pelosi opening her mouth again when she probably shouldn't have:

"If the president were really serious about the deficit, he would begin by submitting a balanced budget," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat.

Someone on her staff should tell her that it works the other way around: the Constitution calls for the Congress to write legislation and submit it to the President for signature or veto.

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