Anyone remember this from 2008?
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Q: When Congress offers you a bill, do you promise not to use presidential signage [sic] to get your way?
OBAMA: Yes. [Applause] Let me just explain for those who are unfamiliar with this issue. You know, we’ve got a government designed by the founders so that there’d be checks and balances. You don’t want a President that’s too powerful or a Congress that’s too powerful or courts that are too powerful. Everybody’s 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, he’s been saying, “Well, I can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter that says ‘I don’t agree with this part’ or ‘I don’t agree with that part.’ I’m going to choose to interpret it this way or that way.” Uh, that’s not part of his power. But this is part of the whole theory of George Bush that he can make laws as he’s 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. We’re 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 Congress’s 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 we’ll also have a signing statement from the president” which will help clarify how they view the law, Holder said.
Yup, that’s 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 Bush’s “abuse” of signing statements. The American Bar Association denounced Bush’s use of signing statements. Democrats called Bush’s use of signing statements as the beginning of a dictatorship. Not a peep about Obama’s.
I’m shocked!
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I will be shocked if the propaganda media EVER complains about ANYTHING King Obama does.
We have the power to stop the liberal media. Don’t buy any of their papers, and don’t watch any of their news or other programs. Sponsors will get the message and they will die a slow death.
Not much of a surprise here. But just to note some of the specifics of what he objects to…
I wonder.. is that transfer “in” or “out” of Gitmo? LOL
Here’s the reality, tho. I’ve never known a federal court to consider any Presidential “signing statement” as usurping the law as written by Congress. His statement, and a dime, wouldn’t even buy him a cuppa joe, let along a ruling in his favor…
Also, he can whine about Congressional defunding and appropriations all he wants. However he cannot seize control of the nation’s purse strings and spend what Congress doesn’t give him. Too bad.
So it strikes me as this is all just lip service for political reasons, letting people know he’s signing the bill but doesn’t agree with all of it. Like who cares?
I just like that HR 2055, the bill in question, also defunds the DOE’s enforcement of the CFLs. heh Another temporary reprieve and kicking of the can down the road… but me and my house lamps will take it for now.
his attitude of arrogance is frustrating for AMERICANS HE SUPPOSE TO SERVE,
THEY will show him who is boss soon.
@ilovebeeswarzone: #4
Ask not what Obama can do for you.
Ask what you can do for Obama.
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there it is, you bring another angle, and I have to figure it out again,
bye
The man is a liar, hypocrite and idiot. I cannot believe a thing he says.
Like every politician, Barack Obama is a liar. Every politician will say with seeming sincerity what he thinks the voters want to hear. No one has any clue what it’s like to be president until he takes the oath of office. After he moves into the White House he realizes the monumental challenges before him. Even the smoothest liars soon learn the import of the famous line; ” Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” – Sir Walter Scott
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I can assure you, I was not lying when I gave you my wish
I believe you beesie.