Charlie Savage, who won a Pulitzer for breaking this story and is the author of our current C&L Book of the Month, brings us more. Bush had already used signing statements to “allow him to bypass more than 1,100 laws” before this latest one:
President Bush this month issued his first signing statement since the Democratic takeover of Congress, reserving the right to bypass 11 provisions in a military appropriations bill under his executive powers.
In the statement, which the White House filed in the Federal Register on Nov. 13 but which initially attracted little attention, Bush challenged several requirements to provide information to Congress. …(read on)
Bush: “If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator,”
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asshole
Time to kick this thieving, lying, cheating sonofabitch outta the White House…
busk fush!
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Gawd daaaaayum! I hates me some Georgie Bush!
So, Ms. Pelosi, why is this criminal still in office?
Chimpeach this fuckwad already!
Cheney first…THEN the chimp!
Pelosi, get off your ass. Impeachment is too good for The Dummy, but do it anyway, for starters.
Impeach ,if he wants to legislate join the house or senate.If he was a private corp. manager,he would have been shown the door for his inability to proform his duties then trying to convince the board they don’t know what their talking about.The boy is in over his head.WTF?
Savour sweetly these moments when you can call GWB what you like. Sounds like it’s going to end very soon.
“Fuck you congress”- Bush.
Let’s bring this pimple to a head. It’s finally time to lance this hemorrhoid of a President.
Someone needs to file a motion with the Supreme Court, is it the Senate Judiciary Committee, the ACLU, I don’t know…but it’s time…bring this to the Supreme Court…and lets finally find out if the Constitution really exists anymore.
Enough is enough.
Where do you people get off telling the king what he can and cant do?!? Dont you know how many people serve at his pleasure? Its not like theres some sort of agreement between the people that King Bush must adhere to!
This “person” in the White House is a useless turd. He’s been a useless turd since his Daddy bought his way into college, business AND the Presidency.
I’ve watched for twenty+ years as Republican Presidents and Congresses have run roughshod over the people, the Constitution, minorities, immigrants and anyone else that wasn’t either a business or political crony or big dollar contributor.
All to culminate with the “election” of possibly the most unqualified, narcissistic, IMBECILE to ever hold public office.
If there is any justice left in the world. Both the Chimp and that despicable swine of a human being, Darth Cheney would wind up in irons in front of a world court judge.
Fuck them all. They should be marching through the WH doors, cuffing and arresting this dangerous asshole right now.
Fuck impeachment. Arrest his ass immediately.
WTF kind of government are we running here?
All The Dummy has to do is pout, stamp his feet, whine ‘I don wanna do dis’
and he gets to break any and all the laws he wants to?!
As I said before, WTF!!!!!
John @ 6:
She’s probably a criminal too. There’s no other explanation.
Funny watching the media squirm trying to spin the new revelation by the released Intelligence report , that IRAN SUSPENDED it’s weapons program in 02 .
First chubby cheek Ed Henry emphatically said ” IT’S A MIXED BAG ” . WHY is it a mixed bag, because the White House still ” fears” they want to develop nukes . So because they ‘fear” something that MIGHT happen , and they have NO proof now , it’s a fricken ” Mixed bag” .
An idiot can see through CNN’s propganda , and whoa FOX reporter said guess WHAT ?
The same Fricken words this morning , standing in front of the WH , ‘ a MIXED bag ” .
Madam Karma will visit him and bring all his crimes back for him to face someday.
This is amazing. I literally count the days before awful hateful stain leaves office.With all the horrible and costly mistakes he has made the fool still thinks he knows best for the nation. He is so angry and spiteful that he does’nt care what crap he leaves us to clean up. I will never dicuss politics with anyone who voted for this minstrel twice.
Kahoneez @ 20:
To paraphrase, “Iran is not dangerous, but they are still very, very scary.”
Judgement Day is coming…they might not like what it’s gonna say…Judgement Day is coming…the holy hypocrites are gonna pay…
-Wackiavelli
kahoneez@20, they’ve had their unexceptional little tallywhackers pointed and ready for premature ejaculation all over Iran since October. Who are we to deny them their long anticipated splort?
Weaseldog @ 23:
George Bush is dangerous and scary. He’s a terrorist with WMDs.
What a total asshole. Sociopath really. Republican really.
Yes, Republican–say it all.
Hugo Chavez holds elections when he wants to push his agenda. Bush simply issues a signing statement.
Who’s the dick-tater?
-GSD
If you ask me the ‘mixed bag’ is what exists in this country as political parties and a political process… A mixed bag of of your garden variety of nuts, greed mongering egotists, wannabe fascists, closeted gays, and con artists…. Bush’s perversion of the so-called signing statements protocol just reveals yet another thing that will need to be either eliminated entirely or reformed drastically by way of spelling out in specific detail just what the intent and design of that protocol should be after this trainwreck of an administration is out of power..
And yes, I agree that removal from power at this point should not be at the ballot box but rather at the end of an indictment, shackles and armed federal agents removing them all from the WH….. And whether it succeeds or not, impeachment at this point is a requirement, not an option to be removed from some hypothetical table. This was all pointed out in a well delivered post late last week.
I wish I could remember the posters name but it was a definative reasoning on why impeachment is both a necessary and desirabe action that Pelosi and the others need to take, whether it succeeds or not. Someone has to GOT to go on record against this administration ‘legally’ for the future welfare of our nation and its political system. That’s the shortest version without detail of what I read last week. And this poster was dead on in his or her understanding and reasoning about it…..JD
Left&Left @ 22:
…which is why at this point both he and cheney clearly should be under arrest. Impeachment is too civilized for what they’ve done and plan to do. In this regard Pelosi is right, impeachment off the table because their crimes merit full arrest at this stage.
Bush screws the country anytime he wants and laughs because he is president for only the shining rich in the city on the hill. Americans have to understand they have been branded and castrated. Its over. Two stolen elections and strong propaganda cable stations say that america has been tricked badly like a cheap whore. Bush and Cheney are brilliant in an evil and self-serving way. Its Over.
If ever I saw a human that deserves to be caged like the animal he acts like, it is GWB. You know the pitiful part is, he was never elected to office legally, but we have had to put up with his bullshit all the time he has been our “leader”. (I hate to put that title on him because he never earned it - hells bells - he hasn’t ever earned anything worthwhile in his life.)
True, Bush was first appointed as President of the United State, by the Supreme Court.
I’m not aware of a Constitutional Amendment that gives them the power to appoint presidents.
So his first four years started out as an insult to the US Constitution.
Google EndGame and/or The Bildeberg Group. They talk about the UN as the police force in the New World Order. One of Jr’s signing statements was to ignore having to inform Congress when they transfer our military equipment to the UN peacekeepers. They are really doing it!
oops- sorry. The spelling is Bilderberg Group.
LIBERTY @ 4:
your a dufus if you think that….he is still a repuke
This is one of my favourite Bush clips of all time.
To think he did this BEFORE he was elected (stole) the 1st Election in 2000 is incredible.
How he even came to be nominated as the Republican Candidate is beyond me.
What a total **** this man is.
Here’s the thing.
Bush is deciding on his own merit that Congress needs to have no roll in oversight.
Bush is also deciding on his own merit that certain sections of the Constitution are irrelevant.
But if we’re just going to ignore the Constitution, then Bush has no power at all. The only thing that puts him in that cushy office making over 400k a year is that piece of paper our ancestors signed all those years ago that was effectively a written framework for just governance over the new republic. The Constitution ( in other words The Law ) is what has inherent authority here and if we’re tossing that then George W. Bush is just some C grade failed businessman that is grabbing up power.
Everybody, including the Congress AND the military should be up in arms about this. The Congress and the military should be in particular because every damned one of them took an oath to defend The Constitution, not George W. Bush, from all enemies foreign and domestic. If Bush is just going to toss his dick around like it means something and violate the Constitution then he IS the enemy and he damn well sure doesn’t belong in office he belongs in a prison cell.
To quote Apollo on BSG:
“I swore an oath. To defend the articles. The articles say there is an election in seven months. Now, if you are telling me we are throwing out the law, then I am not a captain, you are not a commander, and you are not the president. And I don’t owe either of you a damned explanation for anything.”
navydavy @ 36:
So what? Most of the candidates are neocons. I don’t see that he is. I prefer Dennis Kucinich, but I believe that neither will survive the primaries. It is more likely that a hawk from each party will be on the ballot.
Are you so devoted to Party that you’d vote for more war and more insults to the US Constitution, so long as your party wins?
Weaseldog, trust RP’s voting record. He’s a puke with a twin growing out of his side.
crazytown @ 40:
I understand. I’m also not worried about him surviving the primaries. the two that survive will be 100X worse than him.
Ron Paul, another of nature’s oddities. (I mean, look at him. ‘Ya can’t hide that latexed repug look can you? The face, the hair, the eyes)
Weaseldog @ 41:
Yeah. I know. He’s not even worth discussing. Word economy and all that considering other much more important things (understatement).
crazytown @ 43:
For a scary thought experiment, say a Democratic Candidate wins. Pick any you like. We’re neck deep in war in Iran and Iraq after Bush bombed them six months prior. We’re losing troops at an accelerated rate.
What would you favorite candidate do? Surrender? Withdraw? Re-enact the draft?
What will be the Right Wing Spin?
I like the candidates better if I imagine them coming into office during peace time. But if I imagine them entering office right after Bush start WWIII, most of them worry me.
I copied and pasted this article on the comment page of my Congressman, Chris Murphy, from CT. He’s very good about getting back to me about specific items, not just a form letter. I can’t wait to see what he says to the question ” Can we impeach him now? Is it still off the table? Why?”
mister mix @ 12:
“Thank you, and please fuck us again”–Congress
The thing that pisses me off the most is that W is the first to throw rocks (in his stone house) at other supposed tyrants. W can’t wait to take shots at leaders such as Chavez (not that I support Chavez) for making up the rules as he goes. What is the difference between the behavior of Chavez, as compared to “the decider”?
LIBERTY @ 4:
One man can open the floodgates for total corporate power:
Ron Paul!!!! just in time for the planet’s environmental crisis!
I’m confident that this savior (no government, no spending) with an immaculate voting record can finish the job that Bush (small government, big spending) started.
Bush and the republicans trash our government, libertarian-neocons stick it in the landfill.