Fool Me Twice, Shame On Me

This is good news, but don’t get your hopes up that Arlen Specter suddenly grew a spine :

A powerful Republican committee chairman who has led the fight against President Bush’s signing statements said Monday he would have a bill ready by the end of the week allowing Congress to sue him in federal court.

“We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will…authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president’s acts declared unconstitutional,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said on the Senate floor.

Specter’s announcement came the same day that an American Bar Association task force concluded that by attaching conditions to legislation, the president has sidestepped his constitutional duty to either sign a bill, veto it, or take no action.

My guess is that Arlen will grandstand over this issue for a few more weeks before he announces that the Senate has settled on a deal with the President that changes absolutely nothing. At least, that’s the way things seem to be working out with Specter’s “leading the fight” against NSA wiretaps.


posted by greg on July 25, 2006 @ 8:02 am

3 comments »

  1. Hang in there Al, I want to see Bush’s second veto….

    Comment by Kamachanda — July 25, 2006 @ 3:21 pm

  2. 31 years ago Jimmy Hoffa disappeared. The same politicals that took 1/2 million in pension money from the Teamsters snuck in a rider on Mr. Hoffas clemency that prevented him from running for union office ’til 1980. There is no such thing as if/then statments in Executive Clemency; it is unconstitutional. It didn’t bother anyone then, and I bet they get away with it now.

    Comment by patrick — July 26, 2006 @ 12:04 pm

  3. This isn’t good news! It’d be good news if concerned, honest, men were committed to restoring Constitutional primacy to government, but when the guy who came up with the magic bullet theory as Warren Commission staff does it, you can be sure that it’s nothing but a smokescreen, and part of a design to further drag our free people into the desolate pit of fascist tyranny.

    Comment by Jules — July 28, 2006 @ 10:24 pm

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