As a Senator and presidential candidate, Barack Obama decried the use of presidential signing statements, but as with so much other rhetoric originating from Obama concerning “hope and change,” he has decided to keep things the same. Yesterday the Washington Times laid out candidly President Obama’s latest efforts to circumvent the Constitution and his own campaign promises:
When the president of the United States signs a bill into law, it’s expected that he will abide by it. That’s not the case with President Obama, who has a sudden interest in novel legalistic interpretations getting him off the hook from laws he doesn’t like.
On Friday, the president signed the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill, which funds the government for the remaining nine months of the fiscal year. Afterward, he released a statement saying he won’t abide by the law because the Justice Department had advised that certain provisions are “subject to well-founded constitutional objections.”
The mainstream media tells us that Barack Obama is some kind of expert on Constitutional Law, but it looks like he has some reading comprehension issues because the Constitution is clear as to how the president may act when presented with a bill from Congress: he may approve and sign, veto, or ignore.
There is no option to both approve and ignore, as he intends to do. But his flagrant disrespect for the law should come as no surprise to us given his past refusal to enforce and defend statutes he disagrees with. The only surprise should be that he hasn’t been impeached yet.
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Bruce Feher says,
What’s the matter with you? He can make them BUT he don’t have to follow them, you little person, you!
on 28 December 2011 / 4:23 PM
Kandy R. says,
Good facetious comment, Bruce. What I’d like to know however, Mr. Miller, is how one can impeach a president who is holding that office illegally? He’s a usurper, playing at being our POTUS, because he was never eligible to be President in the first place. He is NOT a natural born citizen, as per the requirements of our own Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 5. For a supposed Constitutional attorney, Obama stinks up the room! Yet another way he believes the laws of our Constitution were not written for for HIM! He’s nothing but a travesty for America!
on 28 December 2011 / 4:35 PM
henryKnox says,
Why would anyone think that this President had any intention of following the Constitution. He despises the ‘old document’. He believes in a living, breathing Constitution, which means he doesn’t believe in it all. That is another way of saying it means whatever he wants it to mean and the rest of us can go suck an egg.
on 28 December 2011 / 5:59 PM
trish says,
True – but we have to convince those ‘on the dole’ that, as Margaret Thatcher said, “Socialism is only good until you run out of others’ money.” Look what is happening in California and New York. Can you say work camps?!!! If not for you, for your kids?!!! Wake up!!!
on 29 December 2011 / 8:36 AM
Cyn says,
Kandy,
Of course he is not eligible!
He is treasonous against our laws! He is a criminal.
Ask instead why he has not been removed as a domestic terrorist and a threat to our national security!
All of the house and senate refuse to try this man for treason!
He should have been removed long ago and his lawless appointees with him. This would simply make all of his edicts null and void. The powers that be rufuse to enforce the law. The representatives have no need to obey the law same as the little man!
They are above above we “little person”(s) as Bruce said are below.
They all want, with the exception of a small few, a One World Order!
Henry Knox, you are absolutely correct! He made his intentions very clear during his campaign! Yet the brain washed masses voted him in! I would like to say that every vote was fardulent but I cannot!
I know an extremely intelligent person for many years who considers him wonderful. I was shocked! Yet, this person has no concept of what the HCB is about and considers all things said about him a conservative conspiracy.
This person claimed that they were tired of the lies being spread about the HCB by the right. No investigation at all! “Said they were tired of the lies being spread by hateful conservatives and that they were going to look into it!
I hope they do.
When I told this person that Congress was to make no laws concerning the people that were not also applicable to them? They were shocked! So then there you go!
I do not know if anything can now turn around what this communist has done.
If the Good Ole Boys have their way we will have more of the same trash in office.
I have no use for any of their candidates.
on 28 December 2011 / 9:11 PM
J.Guidry says,
Be afraid, be very afraid of what is surely coming in Nov. 2012. I can’t imagine this administration allowing an election taking place where there is a possibility the potus and his minions will be replaced. I just can’t imagine it, and that scares me.
It’s gonna be an election like none I have ever seen in my life. If it even happens.
on 30 December 2011 / 5:38 AM
Jerry Fogg says,
They won’t be coming after your guns they will be coming after the gun owners.
on 30 December 2011 / 5:52 PM