Monday, July 24, 2006

Power trip

I’m glad to see that the American Bar Association is in top form. I constantly hear from legal eagles how Bush thinks he is king by making his own rules and today’s CNN story helps back up these opinions. In a nutshell, Bush writes exceptions to laws he signs, known as bill-signing statements, which basically say that he reserves the right to change or translate certain laws based on constitutional grounds.
"This report raises serious concerns crucial to the survival of our democracy," said the ABA's president, Michael Greco. "If left unchecked, the president's practice does grave harm to the separation of powers doctrine, and the system of checks and balances that have sustained our democracy for more than two centuries."
Let me remind us all that Bush works for us, not himself or the oil companies owned by friends. My personal opinion is that this is an abuse of power and to believe that one is the only person that needs to be involved in the decision making process of laws is ignorant and dangerous.

Pull the numerous stunts that Bush has gotten away with at any company, perhaps with Enron as the exception, and he would have been fired by now.

2 Comments:

At 7/26/2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

signing statements have been in use since 1817.

Clinton used signing statements 80 times. Bush has used it 104 times.

The "800 laws" fallacy was created
by counting multiple provisions within each as if each constituted a separate signing statement.


"My personal opinion is that this is an abuse of power and to believe that one is the only person that needs to be involved in the decision making process of laws is ignorant and dangerous."

Dont forget, the supreme court had to rein in clintons abuse of line item vetos by declaring them unconstitutional.

also see Executive Order 13083... clinton attempting to reverse several aspects of the US' long standing federalism...

federalism that protects abortion rights... after all, Roe V Wade does NOT guarantee the "right to abortion." The ruling about about states rights.

If RvW is overturned (an attack on federalism) the "right" to abortion reverts to the states.

 
At 7/26/2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good points, thanks for keeping things balanced (and calming me down).

 

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