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>>• Did you feel betrayed when Bush signed Campaign Finance Reform into law?

No. He held his nose as he did so, and I believe it is the role of the judiciary to judge the constitutionality of legislation, not the President.<<

Okay, so as long as the President "holds his nose," he can sign away the whole U.S. Constitution and hope he is overturned by SCOTUS. Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

Go back and read the rest of what I wrote (or did I exhaust your vocabulary?)...You say the campaign finance law is unconstitutional. How do you know? That's your opinion. But who gave you the right to declare what laws are constitutional and which are not? In fact, who gave the President the authority to declare what bills are constitutional and which are not? Seems to me the Constitution you claim to respect gives that authority to the judiciary. I had this debate with someone on FR when the bill was signed, and he actually said that a President had the authority to ignore whatever LAWS(!) he thought were unconstitutional. It seems that kind of exercise of power is called "dictatorship."

Go read the Constitution. Or barring that, take a Government 101 class at your local JC.

I believe it is the role of the judiciary to judge the constitutionality of legislation, not the President.

Over on This thread Was a discussion of whether or not the AG should enforce unconstituional laws. Post 17 was, imo, excellent.

My input was that even Army privates are expected to know which orders are illegal and are OBLIGATED to disobey those orders. Can we expect less from the President?