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what is pissing you off...who's going to win in the NFL this weekend?
Sunday, January 22, 2006
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The Steelers look like fucking Money. Its the 4th quarter and Denver are pressing, but I dont see a Broncos win here. Either way, the NFC are going to have a pretty hard time displacing the AFC from the Lombardi ttrophy.
What do you all think about president Bush's use of "signing statements"? You've got to hand it to this guy. He hasn't vetoed a bill yet; he simply states that he will only obey the law to the extent that he sees fit.
Is the president above the law?
Don't know what you are talking about in this one
Presidents have used signing statements in the past, but Bush has used them way more than any other.
In a signing statement, Bush purports to say how he interprets the law passed by the House and Senate and signed by him, but what he actually is saying is what parts of the law he will follow and what parts he will ignore. This is in effect a line item veto which the Supreme Court has decided is unconstitutional (Clinton v. New York).
The justice department is responsible for defending the presumed constitutionality of federal laws passed by Congress and signed by the president, but Bush's signing statements have declared what parts he deems constitutional and what parts he deems not constitutional. Again, this is a line item veto.
This also shows him to be two-faced. Sen. McCain, Lindsay Graham, and the other 97 Senators who voted for the anti-torture law, and the American public who believe that Bush shook hands with McCain and approved the law now can look at the president's signing statement that he doesn't have to follow that law. His statement said, "administration would interpret the new law 'in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the president'". In other words, screw you John McCain, the rest of Congress, and the US Military.
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