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In reply to the discussion: Obama should never have signed the NDAA into law, signing statements or not. [View all]RC
(25,592 posts)3. Of course not.
It would piss of the republicans.
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Obama should never have signed the NDAA into law, signing statements or not. [View all]
mmonk
Jan 2012
OP
There can NOT be any recess appointments made, because Congress is NOT in recess
Tx4obama
Jan 2012
#18
So now we get to pass all kinds of fascist, unconstitutional shit because to not do so
Downtown Hound
Jan 2012
#30
It would have left our troops without pay until Congress would override his veto
boxman15
Jan 2012
#7
Good point, especially since the signing statement hands detainee status to the Sec of Defense.
sad sally
Jan 2012
#24
The idea that vetoing the bill would have HANDED 2012 to the Republicans is a pretty tenuous one
MNBrewer
Jan 2012
#47
This action BY CONGRESS is inexplicable and unforgivable, no? What's the hidden backstory here?
proverbialwisdom
Jan 2012
#50
I for one refuse to be held hostage by this fascist crap that we always have to appear to support
Downtown Hound
Jan 2012
#34
Why would letting troops go without pay until Congress overrides a symbolic veto do any good?
boxman15
Jan 2012
#41
Again, you state it as fact that a veto would hand the presidency to the GOP
Downtown Hound
Jan 2012
#61
I wonder what kind of other vile shit will be stuffed in a future Defense bill that
neverforget
Jan 2012
#14
Even if Pres Obama would have vetoed it, an override by Congress would have been likely
Tx4obama
Jan 2012
#19
Worse, it will be supported no matter what is in it and anything except going off the
TheKentuckian
Jan 2012
#35
Vetoing would have been a huge gift to whoever the Repug nominee will be, that's for sure.
stevenleser
Jan 2012
#39
You mean like everytime defunding the troops gets brought up, or election time? Besides those times?
stevenleser
Jan 2012
#56
People who are anti-war should STFU because the hysterical majority can be stampeded into war?
MNBrewer
Jan 2012
#57
Where do you get all the hay for the straw men you constantly erect? No one said that.
stevenleser
Jan 2012
#62
Your straw man is that Obama's veto would have "handed" the 2012 election to the GOP
MNBrewer
Jan 2012
#66
No spin, it is what I have been saying all along. Read my first post in this thread.
stevenleser
Jan 2012
#55
It's not spin at the third or fourth comment if you have been saying it all along...
stevenleser
Jan 2012
#64