Lawyers v. Bush

The American Bar Association has spoken out against Bush's use of the "signing statement" - a rider of sorts attached to a bill Bush is signing into law - as a sort of "line-item veto" in a manner far more aggressive than most other presidents.

As it stands now, our Congresspeople can agree on a bill, and Bush can sign it, and attach this statement to it saying, "...but this does not apply to what I will actually do." The ABA noted that many of these signing statements seem formulaic to such an extent that, in them, Bush offers little to no rationale or analysis on why he feels he should be allowed to skirt whatever restrictions Congress legitimately seeks to place on him.

It is sad that, in the 217 or so years of American government having a working checks-and-balances system in place, one monkey boy and an army of authoritarian oligarchs repeatedly throw wrenches into the works, render Congress unable to correct the system, and work to stack the Supreme Court with other authoritarian oligarchs just in case Congress finds a way to hold them all back. The ABA thinks that legislation providing for judicial review of all signing statements could help mitigate the effects of this practice. Hopefully, we can do this before another non-conservative justice retires.

We need to right the good ship America, and take back our country before it is placed on an inevitable collision with an iceberg called "reality".

-R.