signing statements ignored by msm

[barbtries]

It's such huge news, i believe, such plain proof that the bush admin is systematically stripping our country of its very democracy. people need to get their heads outta their asses, and the msm has got to come around soon or we are sunk.

i just sent the following to my local paper:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200605020011

Editor, the Daily Breeze:

What will it take for The Daily Breeze to share this incredibly important story with its readership? The president is systematically undermining our system of checks and balances and assuming powers unprecedented for an American president.

Even if I did not hold the opinion that this is a corrupt and criminal administration, and even if I did not believe that gw bush is far and away the very worst president ever to hold the office, the news that he has, while declining to veto a single law presented to him, on an unprecedented number of occasions and with truly frightening implications, issued "signing statements" that assert basically that he is above the law he has just signed.

On several occasions he would sign the law with the sponsors present, praising them for passing the bill, with pomp and circumstance, and only after everybody left would the signing statement quietly be filed.

The provision prohibiting torture by American troops and jailers is one example. the president does not veto any bill, since to do so would risk an override of his veto. But his signature on the bills that have been passed by Congress are all too often no assurance that he intends to uphold the law in question.

This is huge, frightening news, and your paper should be reporting on it.



http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/07/SIGNING.TMP

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/05/opinion/edbush.php

http://www.confirmthem.com/?p=2024

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13568438.htm

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/03/24/bush_shuns_patriot_act_requirement/

http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060508/COLUMN0703/605080303/1064

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060504_specter_signing_statements/

[Karenca]

1. nominated........very important! .... nt

[Oversea Visitor]

2. But worse

did you read about the bill he sign into law which was not approve by the Senate.
It did not even cause a stir.

Imagine that a bill that cannot pass SENATE but sign by him like it was passed.

[Karenca]

3. Maybe this should also be posted in the

DU Activivst HQ Forum?

[barbtries]

4. if you think so...

i am not sure ... aren't we supposed to post in only one place? excuse my ignorance...thanks

[Karenca]

5. I'm not sure......I think it will be okay if you post it there and explain

that it was already posted in GD.
You could make a link to this posting.

[nicknameless]

11. I believe it's fine to cross-post/repost.

I've done it a number of times.

[Kutjara]

6. This issue is huge.

It is perhaps the single biggest abrogation of the principle of checks and balances in living memory. Bush has effectively become both the Executive and the Legislative. With the current slew of judicial appointments on the cards, he is having a shot at becoming the Judicial branch as well.

The threat that these signing statements represent has the potential to permanently undermine the Constitution (unchallenged Executive powers very quickly become accepted) and, with it, the stability of the Union. This man is destroying the very foundations of the American political system for short term gain. I can't think of a better definition of treason.

Post highly recommended!

[Berry Cool]

7. I saw the story on Olbermann a while back.

Not all of the MSM are ignoring it.

I was amazed. The man really DOES think he can do anything.

[Karenca]

8. This is very important!!....kicking..... nt

[AndyA]

9. Jack Cafferty mentioned it while reading E-mails from viewers once

on CNN, and I believe it was accompanied by some coverage as well, although CNN certainly didn't make a big deal about it. Perhaps Lou Dobbs could add this to his list of issues, along with immigration...

Kicked and recommended.

[annabanana]

10. LEGISLATING FROM THE OVAL OFFICE

.......pfooey on those scurrilous charges of "legislating from the bench".
Bush doesn't even deny it. He claims it as his right as "commander in chief".