Signing Statements and the Iraq Bill
Just a short musing here. The President has shown, through his as-yet untested use of signing statements, that he really doesn't care much about what the statutes say, so I wonder why he doesn't just sign the spending bill and announce that he's going to ignore it as some kind of unconstitutional infringement on Article II powers. If I were a more exciting version of Harry Reid than Harry Reid, I think that's what I'd dare the President to do. After all, Harry could say, no one's going to impeach the President for his repeated decisions, over the past seven years, to ignore Congress's laws through the use of signing statements, because the President has impeachment insurance. (Impeachment insurance comes in a package called "Dick Cheney").
3 Comments:
At 8:04 PM,
Sobek said…
"If I were a more exciting version of Harry Reid than Harry Reid."
Everyone is a more exciting version of Harry Reid than Harry Reid. His own wife frequently remarks, "You know who would make a more exciting Harry Reid than you? That nice boy down at the library. What's his name? Chris? I think it's Chris. Yeah, he'd make a really exciting Harry Reid."
And Harry says, "I think his name is Charles, but yeah, he'd be pretty exciting."
At 9:16 PM,
Garth said…
easy. impeach them both and install pelosi with a pledge not to run in 2008.
At 5:06 AM,
Andy said…
and what of committee reports that ignore states?
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