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OSame

Sandhusker

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Senior House Democrats are warning President Barack Obama he sounds too much like George W. Bush when Obama declared this summer that he could ignore legislation he thinks oversteps the Constitution.

In a letter to the president, four Democrats including House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey said were "surprised" and "chagrined" by Obama's signing statement that accompanied a war spending bill.

Bush had relied on such statements to ignore laws he thought put unconstitutional limits on his executive power. Obama criticized Bush for frequently doing so but said he'd use them if authorized by the attorney general.

Obama's signing statement said he wouldn't allow provisions regarding international financial institutions to interfere with his ability to conduct foreign diplomacy.
 
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Anonymous

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Yep- just like many Congressmen warned several years ago- and I posted on her (and got chastised for it ) -- when you allow bad precedent to take place (and thats exactly what the Repub rubber stamp Congress did with Bush's use of signing statements) its hard to stop it....

As I heard one Congressman put it- when you allow someone to take new tools for their toolbox- its hard to get them to give them back.....

So whats good for the Goose is good for the Gander....But few Repubs thought of this until right before election and it looked like they were going to get a Dem President....Then they all went into hysterics....

But Obama has a long, long, long way to go to catch up with the record set by GW......
 

Faster horses

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OT, Obama is setting his OWN records. He OWNS what he does.
He might have 'inherited a disaster' (as he likes to put it) from Bush, but he's turned it into a catastrophe.
 
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