More Signing Statements

President Bush – remember him? – is back at it again with those wacky signing statements. It has been a constant source of amazement to me that Bush has been able to get away with these things for going on eight years now. Is there any sort of legal mechanism for addressing this short of impeaching the president? It’s frankly unbelievable that someone can simply say about laws that the Congress has passed, “I don’t agree with this, and I don’t intend to follow it.”

Signing statements, Guantanamo Bay, torture, the politization of the Justice Department, NASA, FEMA, the FCC and the EPA and practically every other part of the Executive Branch, Cheney’s wholly extralegal role in this administration – it just goes on and on. When you step back and look at the sheer enormity of Bush’s actions in his two terms of office, you have to take your hat off to the man. He’s been busy.

Four more months.