Oh look, Georgie found his crayon!

In our Constitution, you will find NO reference to "signing statement".

When will Congress challenge this usurpation of authority?

Who is signing for him. Someone reads for GW so someone probably signs for him.

Bush should sign in blood all of his blood down to the last drop. If the as* w*(e has any.

One of the great ironies of history is that Tom Paine would feel right at home in this country as it is now - but Ben Franklin would be an expatriate.

Famous exchange between Franklin and Paine:
Franklin: "Where liberty is, there is my country."
Paine: "Where liberty is not, there is mine."

We have lost our liberty. We need Tom Paine more than ever.

usindependents

Flagged as retarded

Clearly, "signing statements" are unconstitutional. Functionally, they are equivalent to a line item veto, which the President does not have (and I hope and trust that Congress will never ever give him/her).

While Republicans had congressional control, Bush was issuing signing statements faster than you could say, "Bush stole two elections!". And his friendly, rubber-stamp, do-nothing Republican congress didn't voice any objections. Then the Democrats took over in 2006, and the Weasel-in-chief didn't issue a single signing statement -- until the one just reported here in the reference article.

When the new Democratic president moves into the White House in Jan. of 2009, they should open all of the windows to eliminate the stench of the Bush administration. What a dark stain the Bush presidency has left on America. Scatological doesn't even begin to describe it. We will all breathe more easily when Bush crawls back to Crawford and Cheney slithers back to Montana.

Let me jump right to it, though it's slightly off-topic.

The crisis that is the United States of America cannot be solved by the impeachment of the sitting president or the vice president, because the REAL parties to the crime that has gripped our nation are beyond the process of impeachment. There is only ONE solution, only one way to dissolve the vast network of conspiracy that began around 1980, and no one seems willing to address it, at least openly and certainly not on this site.

Impeachment is an impotent nonsolution.

U.S. Constitution
Article I, Section 7, Paragraph 2
"Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated..."

Nothing here about "signing statements". Two choices:
1) approve the bill
2) return to the House in which it originated

And a bonus!
U.S. Constitution
Article II, Section 3, paragraph 1
"... he [The President] shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed..."

... one more bonus!
U.S. Constitution
Article VI, paragraph 2:
"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land..."

paragraph 3:
"... all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution..."

Signing statements should only be utilized when Congress passes legislation that is unconstitutional. They were not designed to be abused, to circumvent or elude the system of checks and balances in government. It is the Judiciary which interprets laws, Congress that passes them. The executive branch has the authority to veto legislation, but not to hand-pick what it does and does not want to abide by. Secrecy, re-definition, circumvention, illegal conduct, and invoking unitary or executive privilege to do whatever the administration wants, Congress and the courts be damned is not part of his authority. It is unconstitutional and illegal.

Mukasey will straighten this out, right Schumer?

usindependents

It does not get much dumber than this rock. Rush talking points, without a plan; Bush counter points, without a clue; Rove lies, minus the spine. Classic Neotard disease. Rest in peace little neocon warrior, you is brain dead.

Jeffie darling, come back home to your Mommy. That group home thing is for retards. You're not retarded honey, just a little slow.

Besides, Mommy needs some lovin' from her big boy. Mommy misses her big boy.

The sad thing is the American right doesn't seem to care. What is it, do they all have abandoment issues from their lying alcoholic daddies? How many time will the right allow themselves to be lied to, and deceived, and basically crapped on over and over and over again? How can it ONLY be the Left who's offended by Bush's lies and deceptions?

I know that it's supposed to be a given that Bush is really, really dumb. (and Evil and a Facist and Alcoholic etc. etc. ...)

Yet to put it in cartoon terms - he always makes the Dems assume the role of Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner.

How can that be if they are so much smarter and they have Peace, Truth, Justice, Greeness and Diversity all working for them?