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President Bush asserts authority to bypass defense act

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-01-30 10:28|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Bush knows his Teddy (the good one) Roosevelt. Congress refused to allocate funds for Roosevelt to send the new US Navy around the world on tour, so Teddy sent them halfway, then said to congress that if they wanted a US Navy at all, they had better pay to get them back.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-01-30 10:32|| 2008-01-30 10:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Bush finally is getting some balls to go up against a surrender first type of congress.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-01-30 10:50|| 2008-01-30 10:50|| Front Page Top

#3 One of those signing statements again. Nothing gets the nutroots riled like signing statements.

Posted by eLarson 2008-01-30 10:52|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2008-01-30 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Lame duck?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-01-30 11:26|| 2008-01-30 11:26|| Front Page Top

#5 "I reject the notion in his signing statement that he can pick and choose which provisions of this law to execute," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California.

Hee hee! Worst case: Ask for forgiveness later! I wonder if this was factored into accepting the bill in the first place. In any case, if Nancy is so upset, she can put the Judicial Branch to work to clear up any misunderstandings. That's why it's there. By the time it gets through that, we should be done in Iraq altogher!

"His job, under the Constitution, is to faithfully execute the law - every part of it - and I expect him to do just that."

Including the part about how the President doesn't have to pay attention to laws that are unconstitutional?

Posted by gorb 2008-01-30 11:36|| 2008-01-30 11:36|| Front Page Top

#6 "His job, under the Constitution, is to faithfully execute the law - every part of it - and I expect him to do just that."

Never stopped congress before.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-01-30 11:49|| 2008-01-30 11:49|| Front Page Top

#7 [Aris Katsaris has been pooplisted.]

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2008-01-30 12:44|| 2008-01-30 12:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, I'm quite sure that I will thoroughly dislike signing statements if either Hillary or Obama takes office.

Posted by Seafarious 2008-01-30 12:50|| 2008-01-30 12:50|| Front Page Top

#9 I, for one, give Speaker Pelosi's objection-to-signing-statement the force of law. Only Congress can tell the President what to do!

Oh, and Warren Burger's Supreme Court, too.

Posted by The Hon. Sen. Reid 2008-01-30 13:50|| 2008-01-30 13:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Note how the Boston Globe cites 47 different experts that agree with their view, and none from any other point of view.

Posted by Bobby 2008-01-30 13:51|| 2008-01-30 13:51|| Front Page Top

#11 ...except for laws that overstep Congress' constitutionally granted powers by interfering with other powers granted to the Executive by that same Constitution.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-01-30 14:24|| 2008-01-30 14:24|| Front Page Top

#12 I drive by the Globe on the way home. I'll let everyone know if it's surrounded by Bushitler tanks and if the black helicopters are landing troops on the roof...

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-30 14:26|| 2008-01-30 14:26|| Front Page Top

#13 We need the country to be committed to Iraq in the long-term, and a treaty is how you make that happen

Why?

Posted by g(r)om-jobar 2008-01-30 14:45|| 2008-01-30 14:45|| Front Page Top

#14 13 We need the country to be committed to Iraq in the long-term, and a treaty is how you make that happen

Why?

Because there is more legitimacy behind a treaty that has been voted on by a legislative body and approved by the executive. It speaks as a collective representing the populous instead of a single man acting on his own.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2008-01-30 15:33|| 2008-01-30 15:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Good for Bush, Cuts the Dems off at the knees.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-30 16:17|| 2008-01-30 16:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Because there is more legitimacy

That wasn't the question.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-01-30 16:18|| 2008-01-30 16:18|| Front Page Top

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