Bending the Third Rail
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Unchecked and Unbalanced
Everyone is tut-tutting Arlen Spectre's confrontation with the White House:
(AP) A powerful Republican committee chairman who has led the fight against a tactic by President Bush to avoid carrying out parts of laws he signs said Monday he would have a bill ready by the end of the week to allow Congress to sue Mr. Bush in federal court.

"We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will ... authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of "signing statements" with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional," Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said on the Senate floor.
Cummon. We know Arlen "the great waffle" Spectre. Does anyone really believe anything will come of this "constitutional confrontation?". I certainly don't. This is yet another of the waffle's dog and pony shows designed to calm voters fears about a rubber stamp Congress. The odds of any kind of judicial review of Bush's signing statements are about as good as the odds of Bush capturing Osama bin Laden.
Written at 9:47 AM by Greyhair.
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1 Comments:
Blogger Lynne said...
Dog and pony show indeed. Think Progress has more info:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/14/media-sham-compromise/
and
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/13/specter-compromise/
11:27 AM  
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