Posts Tagged: signing-statements


25
Jul 06

Signing Statements Redux

Yet again, everyone is carping about signing statements, whether or not they are constitutional or not, and lamenting how "Schoolhouse Rock" never addressed this part of the Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances that the framers designed into our Constitution (somebody sooo needs to reanimate them for a current historical context).

It's tempting to slip into cries of Facism! and snark about our democracy being in it's "last throes", but it's time to look at this power grab for what it really is, which is not what you think…


1
May 06

5/1: Sometimes, the Posts Write Themselves (aka Mission Accomplished).

Today is the three-year Anniversary of a certain President standing on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, after his staff had affixed a banner, flown in Top Gun style, whilst dressed up in full flight gear, proudly declaring "Mission Accomplished".

What a difference three-years can make… 

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