The Daily Lies

Friday, May 12, 2006

Presidential Signing Statements

President Bush in an attempt to make Congress and the Supreme Court obsolete by interpreting the second amendment to the Constitution to mean "executive branch has all power" has issued over 700 signing statements to legislation since he has been president.

Basically, he is stating that his interpretation of the bill/legislation is the "law" and what Congress had intened the bill/legislation to mean really doesn't matter.

This is further evidence of his incremental approach to Fascism. Do you see this republican controlled congress put a check on these signing statements? The answer is no.
If the next Congress that happens to be Democrat controlled were to try and right all of Bush's signing statements, they would not be able to get anything else done during their tenure.

The incremental approach worked for Hitler and it is working for W.