President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution
Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ‘’whistle-blower” protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.
And let me be clear, any President should be impeached if they refuse to enforce the law as they have sworn under oath that they would. I don't care if it is a Republican or a Democrat. There is no excuse or defense.
These are interesting articles and should be examined further. I am reluctant at this time however, to accept this claim that Bush basically behaved the same as Zero when he was in office. For example, it’s possible Bush “ignored” or “refused to enforce” some executive order made by a previous president, or some EPA regulation not passed by Congress, but quite frankly any story sourced from “Prison Planet” (aka Alex Jones, the same man who believes 9/11 was an “inside job”) is suspect, IMO.
Following the link back to the original Boston Globe site yields no fruit. The Globe says the article doesn’t exist (would the Globe provide cover for Bush?). Maybe it got archived either for its age, or maybe removed as to not allow such comparisons as you are making (for whatever reason)
The point is, I’m reluctant to believe Prison Planet about anything for the obvious reason above. Provide another source please.
I have seen your post #151 too; this also doesn’t prove he ignored laws as Obama has done. The Human Events editorial makes a lot of claims about a speech he made around that time apparently, but doesn’t source the speech itself to back up its conclusions.
It does show a disregard on his (Bush’s) part for laws already on the books (at the time he was pushing for amnesty, saying our immigration laws don’t work, blah blah) but this doesn’t mean he didn’t enforce the laws. He was just saying they were ineffectual. At least that was his claim, as the editorial itself points out, Bush said it was impossible to deport 11 million but yet bragged about deporting 6 million over 5 years.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m no great fan of Bush , precisely because of his amnesty plan.
I too would have loved to ask him, “So which is it, is it impossible to deport millions or not Mr Bush?”
But really, since he (his administration) did deport 6 million, I’d still ask you, “So which is it, did Bush ignore laws like Obama or not?”
It seems to me he didn’t. Does that make him a great president? No, but he certainly was no Obama.