c-span - ABA on presidential signing statements 10 am edt

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

www.c-span.org

sorry if dupe.

[napi21]

1. es! I saw that announcement on cspan!

I'm impressed that they are done with their analysis already! I'll be watching!!!!!

[SpiralHawk]

16. It's cut and dried: BushCo and corrupt repulicon cronies

are trashing the U.S. Constitution to enhance their own fascist control-and-domination schemes to benefit the "elite", and to line the pockets of corrupt republicon cronies.

It could not be plainer. They hate America, Americans, and democracy.

Impeach Bush and the corrupt, Constiution-trashing republicon congress. Now.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. kick - starting now

edit: michael greco, president, american bar association speaking

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. signing statements "clearly violate the constitution"

[Sydnie]

4. WooHoo!! It's about time someone started saying it out loud

Finally, some grownups get the mic!

[Norquist Nemesis]

18. 'violate' when they state a law is "unconstitutional" or that

the the President unilaterally interprets to state he(she) won't follow the law.

[Skidmore]

5. I know this is about the constitutional violations of the executive

but I hope this group slaps Congress to and tells them to step up and do their job in checking his power.

[Finder]

6. No sugarcoating by this guy...n/t

[Sydnie]

8. He is calling it just like he sees it - he is a tyrant and a dictator!

(without using those words, of course)

[Skidmore]

12. And he's a stupid one to boot.

If * were more competent and less a dullard, this nation would be in a hell of a lot worse shape than it is now.

[Norquist Nemesis]

7. Usurped the power of Congress and the Courts n/t

[kentuck]

9. So he has broken the law 800 times??

According to this lawsuit?

[Skidmore]

11. Impeach him.

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. Don't think it's a lawsuit...yet

It's their report on Presidential Signing Statements. Looks like no one else is carrying it. If anyone picks it up, the echo machine will be screaming for the heads of lawyers again.

[Skidmore]

10. This is great! Now what do we do about this?

BTW, I was happy to see Bruce Fein on that task force. Whatever I thought of him during the Clinton impeachment mess, that man is a true patriot.

[Norquist Nemesis]

15. Alert the media!

and push this to the forefront of the American conscious? :shrug:

[Pacifist Patriot]

21. LOL! That's funny.

So funny I could cry. AGH!

[Skidmore]

14. Sonnet needs to get a different colorist...

Sorry, but that Clairol job is just too distracting.

[Norquist Nemesis]

17. I can hear the Bushetals already

"Ho hum"

[Skidmore]

19. A couple of things come to mind while listening to Sonnet's presentation:

*'s avoidance of the veto as a tool of governance has

1) been intentional to allow him to usurp power through the signing statements
2) to put Congress on record for passing laws laced with Rovian landmines to be triggered for political purposes later.

[Skidmore]

20. Q&A

First person up wants egregious examples.

Sonnett cites detainee treatment act as first example.