Posted on 12/24/2011 2:26:54 PM PST by Starman417
Anyone remember this from 2008?
[VIDEO AT SITE]
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:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
I could have told you that before the sob assumed power.
so he has given himself a line-item veto?
ok - we can use that too
Think he will be confronted with these facts in a debate or an interview in the next 11 months? Think again - the media is still in the tank for this clown, even after he has proven himself an abject failure.
Where did you teach? What faculty did you teach with? Release ALL your records: your academic, your thesis, your COLB - let's have full disclosure O "Most Transparent" One!
Nothing new. He should have already been impeached for his flagrant violations of the constitution. The first was the Oath of Office he took.
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