If Ramesh is right, a couple of Republican senators have come up with a way to turn down the political heat on their big-spending party–by sponsoring a line-item veto amendment. The Supreme Court struck down the line-item veto in the 1990s, but this would get around that by making it Constitutional.

They’d better be careful what they wish for, though–given the current mood of the country, it just might pass. Or maybe, in the case of these two particular senators, they actually hope it will. It could be that its time has finally come.