They told me if I voted for John McCain...
... we would have a President who uses signing statements to avoid laws he doesn't like.
And they were right!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/04/president-obama-issues-signing-statement-indicating-he-wont-abide-by-provision-in-budget-bill.htmlPresident Obama Issues “Signing Statement” Indicating He Won’t Abide by Provision in Budget Bill
...One rider – Section 2262 -- de-funds certain White House adviser positions – or “czars.” The president in his signing statement declares that he will not abide by it.
...Therefore, the president wrote, “the executive branch will construe section 2262 not to abrogate these Presidential prerogatives.”
During his presidential campaign, then-Senator Obama was quite critical of the Bush administration’s uses of signing statements telling the Boston Globe in 2007 that the “problem” with the Bush administration “is that it has attached signing statements to legislation in an effort to change the meaning of the legislation, to avoid enforcing certain provisions of the legislation that the President does not like, and to raise implausible or dubious constitutional objections to the legislation.”
Then-Sen. Obama said he would “not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law.”
