Permit me to laugh at David Swanson

[TheKentuckian]

82. Fix it???? The damn thing was just passed. This is not a game and it is offensive

to treat it as such. Who the hell do you expect to "fix it"? The same supermajority of assholes that willfully constructed it?

The same fucks that rejected minimally wise amendments?

Who the fuck cares what Obama's intentions are, this shit should have never made it out of commitee, should not have received votes left of the fringe of the neocons, and should have been not only vetoed but used as bludgeon against each and every "Yea" and if the bastards override then let the pox be on their houses.

Signing statements are not binding, the enacted legislation is. Granting his handling, the shit is still on the books and no one is bound by the statements, including the person who issued them.

If he didn't want to own this right along with the traitors in Congress, his job is to punt it back to them and make the fuckers own it
You always fight to win, that does not mean you avoid fights you can lose or at times those that cannot be won now but perhaps the lost battle will provide space, opportunity, and/or inspiration to win the war.

A signing statement is figleaf or an announcement of the intent of creative enforcement and execution of the legislation, it cannot change what is behind the leaf and the creative interpretation last only so long as it does, at the discretion of the President, whoever it may be.