Stephanie
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Anyone remember this from 2008?
Q: When Congress offers you a bill, do you promise not to use presidential signage [sic] to get your way?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seAR1S1Mjkc]Obama on Presidential Signing Statements - YouTube[/ame]
OBAMA: Yes. [Applause] Let me just explain for those who are unfamiliar with this issue. You know, weve got a government designed by the founders so that thered be checks and balances. You dont want a President thats too powerful or a Congress thats too powerful or courts that are too powerful. Everybodys got their own role. Congress job is to pass legislation. The President can veto it, or he can sign it. But what George Bush has been trying to do is part of his effort to accumulate more power in the Presidency, is, hes been saying, Well, I can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter that says I dont agree with this part or I dont agree with that part. Im going to choose to interpret it this way or that way. Uh, thats not part of his power. But this is part of the whole theory of George Bush that he can make laws as hes going along. I disagree with that. I taught the Constitution for ten years, I believe in the Constitution, and I will obey the Constitution of the United States. Were not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end run around Congress.
Hypocrisy .thy name is Obama.
President Obama said Friday he will not be bound by at least 20 policy riders in the 2012 omnibus funding the government, including provisions pertaining to Guantanamo Bay and gun control.
After he signed the omnibus into law Friday, the White House released a concurrent signing statement saying Obama will object to portions of the legislation on constitutional grounds.
Signing statements are highly controversial, and their legality is disputed.
I have advised the Congress that I will not construe these provisions as preventing me from fulfilling my constitutional responsibility to recommend to the Congresss consideration such measures as I shall judge necessary and expedient, Obama said in a statement as he signed the bill into law.
So no end round Congress there? The worst Attorney General in history, Eric Holder, said:
So we are in a better place, I think the regulations, procedures that will help, and well also have a signing statement from the president which will help clarify how they view the law, Holder said.
Yup, thats called doing a end run around Congress Mr. President.
Where are they cries from the MSM and the Democrats? Or do they only cry when a Republican is in the White House? Hell, Charlie Savage at the New York Times won a Pulitzer for his work on Bushs abuse of signing statements. The American Bar Association denounced Bushs use of signing statements. Democrats called Bushs use of signing statements as the beginning of a dictatorship. Not a peep about Obamas.
Im shocked!
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Obama Issues Another Signing Statement His Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds | Flopping Aces