Permit me to laugh at David Swanson

[TheKentuckian]

365. No

His position is the law he put his signature on, the signing statements have zero force of law.

He doesn't even have to abide by them, certainly no future President has to.

If the law he signed was not his position then he was in no way compelled to throw his John Hancock on the piece of shit.

I measure his positions by what he does and what he did is sign the bill. Further refusal to sign the bill or even a veto in no way negates or limits his ability to creatively enforce the legislation as asserted in the meaningless signing statements.

The only purposes of such statements is to publically thumb ones nose at Congress like Bush did at times or to act as a fig leaf to try and cover over the fact the law is being signed with supporters (also not alien to Bush) and either way I don't care because the bill was signed.

The only position with force of law, is that he signed the bill. The statement does not amend the bill signed.