Posted on 04/18/2011 5:19:07 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
White House Explains Obama's Flip-Flop on Signing Statements Monday, April 18, 2011 By Fred Lucas
(CNSNews.com) – The White House defended President Barack Obama’s use of a so-called "signing statement" for the fiscal year 2011 budget compromise even though candidate Obama said in 2008: “We’re not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress.”
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that back in 2008 Obama, meant the president should not abuse signing statements--not that he was against ever using signing statements.
“He never said he was opposed to all signing statements,” Carney told reporters on Monday. “We’ve pointed to numerous statements in the campaign where he made clear that every president must maintain the right, of course, must maintain the right, to have signing statements, to raise constitutional concerns or objections about the laws passed by Congress that he signs into law.”
Obama’s signing statement was in response to provisions in the budget compromise, reached on April 9 between Obama and congressional leaders, that dealt with funding of four White House “czars,” a provision to block funding for transferring terror suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay prison inside the United States, and to transferring Gitmo detainees to other countries.
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He prefers “Czars” for circumventing the constitution...
his flip flop is an end around on Congress to maintain his end around on Congress!
I don’t know an idiot who is cunning. To be cunning means you have to possess some smarts.
Much more than that, he prefers them because they don’t answer to anyone but him.
Even wild animals can be cunning. Bssically his strings are pulled. He’s not his own man.
Thx
what’s that crap he said, “I taught constitutional law for ten years,...”
Prove it. Let’s see the ‘contract’ and the ‘evaluations’, hehheh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seAR1S1Mjkc&feature=player_embedded
the only thing he’s EVER done for ten years is pick his nose.
oh, yeah, and agitate.
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