Bush officials won’t testify on signing statement.
CongressDaily reports that “senior administration officials” refused “invitations to testify today during a House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing examining President Bush’s signing statement on the FY08 defense authorization bill.” Bush’s signing statement waived provisions that would ban permanent bases in Iraq and create a wartime contracting oversight commission.
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White House officials sent a laurel, and hardy handshake along with their official Fu(k You bouquet.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:52 pmSo what? How much would a few hours of “I can’t recall” added to the investigation?
March 11th, 2008 at 5:53 pmBush answers that call at 3am, then doesn’t recall.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:02 pmNow the adminstration doesn’t even attempt to deceive - they simply do not recognize Congress as a part of their neocon government. Has anybody seen my country?
March 11th, 2008 at 6:09 pmInvite to come. Well put. succinct. non threatening. nothing.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:13 pmHe’s a dictator, pure and simple. Pelosi was and continues to be a fool.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:14 pmBush’s signing statement waived provisions that would ban permanent bases in Iraq and create a wartime contracting oversight commission
Bush/Cheney: Keeping contractors and war profiteers safe from their enemies………..and the American people?
March 11th, 2008 at 6:19 pmIn the words of Dick; he “has other priorities”
Somebody needs to step up and get some control of this president. If Pelosi doesn’t see where we are headed, then she needs a new pair of glasses to go along with the table that I’m sure any number of us can supply her with.
Now I’m getting scared folks.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:28 pmBush/Cheney to Congress: “Here’s an embroidered KBR towel you can shove up your arse! Now, leave us alone! I’m the PRESDENT!”
March 11th, 2008 at 6:33 pmIssue more statements, Bush, go ahead. The next president, a Democrat, will storm into office and issue his own signining statement — an order to disregard every signing statement you’ve made and enforce the laws passed by congress.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:45 pmhe will dance like a drunken monkey in the Rose Garden, however.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:45 pmOnce again the MOONBATS scamper around their cages screeching about something the have no understanding of. These statements are perfectly legal, every President since Monroe has used them, and they are not enforcible changes to a law.
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 11, 2008 @ 6:44 pm
Must be really cheap gin.
Previous signing statements have clarified bills after signing; Bush’s signing statements clarify that he has no intention of following the law. If you weren’t so busy trying to put lipstick on the Bush pig, you might pick up a little information from time to time.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:46 pmRodham 3am Hussein Ginger ale
March 11th, 2008 at 6:50 pmBush’s signing statement waived provisions that would ban permanent bases in Iraq and create a wartime contracting oversight commission
How is it possible that after 5 years of war (longer than WW2) we are still spending 12 billion dollars a month or whatever the current outrageous figure is and there is no war-profiteering going on?
Wtf is wrong with the American people?
March 11th, 2008 at 6:55 pmIs it drugs in the water supply?
Are we going to wait until the dollar is completely in the toilet and oil is $150-200 a barrel (almost hit $110 today) before we finally start to wake up?
It will soon be too late.
There was a time when America would investigate, prosecute and punish war-profiteers.
Comment by Jeannie See — March 11, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
I agree JS. The petulant boy king and his assistant Dick need a hard slap in the face with reality. They have strutted around Washington for seven years as though their shit doesn’t stink, flouting the laws of this Country and making a complete mockery of our political system. They disreguard the laws that stand in the way of their agenda with illegal signing statements. They twist the true meaning and spirit of our Nation’s laws to the breaking point to justify their CRIMINAL activities and raise the “Executive Privilege” card EVRY time questions are asked reguardless of whether it applies to national security or not. The concept of equal branches of government and proper oversight have meant nothing to these self-serving loathsome parriahs. They have done NOTHING to improve the lives of the people of this nation, only to fill the allready overstuffed coffers of their corporate buddies. If you want to judge a person’s character just look at their friends. The Saudis, Ken Lay, KBR, the Bin Ladens, Halliburton, the oil giants, the neocons, AIPAC, Blackwater, PNAC….hell, even God-damned Hitler was a business associate of Bush’s grandfather. If there is any true justice left maybe someday we will see these two traitors to our Country and many of their band of merrymen will get the fate they so truly deserve. Talk about taxation without representation! I want a refund! I’d happily settle for a war crimes trial, though!
March 11th, 2008 at 6:56 pmhe will dance like a drunken monkey in the Rose Garden, however.
Comment by tombaker — March 11, 2008 @ 6:45 pm
The reason he is so filled with joy these days is because gas is going to break $4.00/gal soon.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:59 pmThat’s what happens when you fill the White House with people tied to the oil industry.
Must be really cheap gin.Comment by gummitch
March 11th, 2008 at 6:59 pmIt has to be cheap stuff because his RNC masters are running out of money to pay these uneducated low-lifes.
I’m can’t wait for the signing statement that eliminates any future elections.
Everyone will try to erase their slight disappointment with an impulse shopping spree.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:59 pmHeh. Time for the SECOND American Revolution, I see, against the SECOND King George.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:01 pmBush announced early on that it was good to be a dictator - and he is living up to his announcement. He is writing his own rules as he goes along, and they all involve his operating his government like a banana-republic. His rules, his laws, his signatures — no one else needed.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:03 pmWhat’s this about an invitation? If they were to deign to appear, they would all have memory lapses.
They need to be subpoenaed, demanded to reply, and thrown in jail until their memories improve.
#16, Bushed
March 11th, 2008 at 7:05 pmYou said it!
If our elected officials don’t start doing something, THEY will be obsolete.
Pssssst…DO SOMETHING!
Call and write your Congress people. Just click on your state for phone, fax, and email information.
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
March 11th, 2008 at 7:07 pm>about something the have no understanding of.
like you have no understanding of the fact that an enormous amount of written material is not made by presses…
March 11th, 2008 at 7:48 pm>scamper around their cages screeching
starting to become more and more convinced this scab Gin is another incarnation of the mighty scabby hermaprodite..
March 11th, 2008 at 7:50 pmStop funding their staffs.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:56 pmUse INHERENT CONTEMPT and lock their asses up.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:21 pmHeh. Time for the SECOND American Revolution, I see, against the SECOND King George.
Comment by Leftside Annie — March 11, 2008 @ 7:01 pm
Got pitchforks? I got torches!
March 11th, 2008 at 8:22 pmThis is waayy over the edge.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:23 pmCongress does nothing to this criminal administration that is knowingly destroying our economy, our environment, our government, other countries, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Knowing 9-11 was their wet dream should have been the last straw.
It is way past time the people did something about it.
I have a bad feeling that what is coming up will make the last 7 years seem tame.
At the risk of dating myself, “Love means never having to testify before Congress….”
Cheers,
March 12th, 2008 at 1:05 amInvited? Invited?!?!?!
SUBPOENA THEM!!! When they fail to show up, ARREST THEM!!
Dammit!! No more Mr. Nice Democrat. Why in the hell are they so scared of the GOP?
March 12th, 2008 at 8:56 am