Obama on Signing Statements, 2008

He can have as many advisors as he wants, but Congress controls the money. If he thinks separation of power means he has a bottomless supply of funding for the executive branch, I think Congress should call his bluff.

You have to be a complete idiot to believe anything Barack Obama says.

If you want a detailed evaluation of how many promises Obama has kept or not kept PolitiFact is keeping track of hundreds of them. There is no need to seriously consider heavily abbreviated and biased right-wing selections mixed with amateur psycho-babble. If there is any doubt about how Obama got elected simply review Sarah Palin’s interviews with Katie Couric, it was all she wrote.

That “Ms. Palin’s” opinions are considered of any noteable worth shows the extreme shallowness of the right wing brain pool. Sad indeed.

“That “Ms. Palin’s” opinions are considered of any noteable worth shows the extreme shallowness of the right wing brain pool.” – Dan
Excuse me Dan, but Palin wanted to drill for oil and use the resources that we have here to make us more self reliant. That is an opinion worthy of consideration and it’s too bad our current President doesn’t understand energy and what to do about it.
Posted by: Noz | Apr 16, 2011 6:52:14 PM
Ms. Palin’s opinion ‘drill, drill, drill’ had the depth of a third grade moron.
Again, this is what the Republican brain trust has to offer?

He is simply a dishonest man.
If he does indeed fund his “czars” without congressional appropriation of the funds to do so, he is doing exactly what Reagan did in funneling unappropriated funds, against the congressional action, to the Contras.
Are you dopes starting to get the picture about this guy?

“…given the fact that millions acres of leases are going unused already.”
Millions of leased acres don’t always produce viable oil wells. A lease only gives the right to explore and drill.

“You have to be an idiot to believe anything Obama says.”
Posted by: drjohn | Apr 17, 2011 9:46:56 AM
An idiot or a paid Obama blogger. They’re pretty easy to identify. They blamed Bush for high gas prices but completely ignore $4 gas now.
They also screamed for more pictures of flag-draped coffins when Bush was in office but ignore the fact that Obama is responsible for more casualties in Afghanistan than Bush was. They also have no problem with Obama prosecuting three additional wars in Yemen, Pakistan, and Libya, all countries that never attacked us. All military actions that Congress never approved.
The Patriot Act was evil under Bush, but when Obama greatly expanded internet and phone wiretapping, it’s not fascist at all. The hypocrisy is endless.

This is far more than simply another cynical, hypocritical flip-flop by this dishonest poseur.
What he is saying he is going to do–spend money for a purpose forbidden by congress–is precisely what Reagan did in Iran-Contra, which of course enraged all the usual suspects in the MSM. Still waiting to hear from them now.

The problem is Obama is PEFECTLY safe when he copies Bush. And Bush was our worst power-grabbing, Constitution-crippling, “I’ll obey the law when its expedient for my political agenda” President ever.
For eight years Republicans were completely mum about what Bush was doing simply because he was anti-abortion and pro-their-crony-capitalism. Now, all of a sudden Republicans turn hypocrites and say signing statements are wrong simply because Obama’s cronies are on the other end of the scale!
Obama is Bush III. We deserve everything that’s coming – actually, the Bush Republicans ASKED for it, and now the harvest is coming in. It’s a two-edged sword.

Barak is a dictator; as was Bush and Clinton before him. Every year the dictatorial powers of the Executive, and the President, increase. Obama(sic) has expanded the Bush/Clinton era anti-civilrights laws to new heights. Now he is “coming after” the internet, healthcare, banking, besides the exists Patriot Act(s) that he expanded, the warrantless wiretaps, the data mining, the new war(s), the freespeech zones, etc etc etc

Jose,
What I DO have a problem with is hypocrites that demagogue an issue to make a point, and who have ALREADY DONE what they are criticizing.
Take DEFICITS, for example. Bush ran the greatest deficits in American history up until Obama. He ran them EIGHT YEARS IN A ROW, and the Republicans were completely MUM because it was their guy running them (and running us into the ground with big government).
Take HEALTH CARE, for example. Republicans instituted prescription drug coverage to buy the senior vote which cost (and will cost) trillions that we cannot afford. But when Obama buys the young and poor vote with health care handouts, the Republicans say, “Dictator! Socialist!”
Obama is doing EXACTLY what Bush did to destroy the country, only better! (And most Republicans long for their man to be back destroying the country, because they care more about their party than the country.)
The Ds and the Rs are identical now. Their just fighting over who gets to use the credit card. The credit card is more important to most Republicans than the country. They both want to feed the beast because they’ve set it up so that the beast feeds them. It’s so sad.

“If you want a detailed evaluation of how many promises Obama has kept or not kept PolitiFact is keeping track of hundreds of them.”
Yeah, and according to Politifact Obama’s promise not to use signing statements doesn’t register as promise broken, but “compromised.” That’s all you need to know about their idiotic rating system.
Like Jim Geraghty over at the National Review says, all Obama’s promises come with an expiration date.

EPU, you don’t see any hypocrisies on the part of Republicans? Not even a teenzy weenzy bit??
Sadly, it’s like 90% of the country has self-blinders on and only see what the other guy is doing wrong, all while they’re doing the EXACT same thing.

J.R., I used to post at HotAir, but AP is a little too liberal for me – he says the “natural born citizen” requirement of the Constitution is “antiquated.” (Rove would say the same thing, I’m sure, to use Obama to aid the Republican party.)
Precious few establishment Republicans understand what Bush/Rove/McCain/Graham/Boehner tried to/are driving our country to. They think all we need to do is get rid of Obama and put in Romney (or another RINO) and everything will be swell.
They don’t realize that they (the establishment Republicans who are 90% RINO) are the cause of the problem. (Just like Carter needed Nixon to get elected, Obama needed Bush. If Bush weren’t the worst President in history, we would never be experiencing the Obama backlash.)

This man thinks he is a dictator or king, or would like to be. He really wants to be global King and how dare we American idiots stand in his way. Wonder if he bows to himself in the mirror and kisses his own hands before he goes to bed?