CNN.com – Dobbs: Why is the president ignoring our laws? – Jul 26, 2006
Excellent article. Good question: why?!
The article mentions that bush, as all presidents have, “has solemnly sworn to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution of the United States.”
Yet a bipartisan, 11-member committee of The American Bar Association “claims President Bush has violated that oath by issuing hundreds of ‘signing statements’ to disregard selected provisions of the laws that Congress passed and he signed.”
Over 800 of these statement, bush has issued. All previous presidents combined have issued only 600!
The article doesn’t go into other issues of illegality such as domestic wiretapping without judicial oversight, aquisition and holding of domestic phone records, aquisition of domestic bank records, advocation of torture, releasing of covert information for personal purposes of revenge, and just general manipulation and misrepresentation of intelligence for the purpose of initiating an unprovoked and illegal war with Iraq.
Also, war profiteering (which is treason) with the exclusive contracts in Iraq to American companies owned by members of the administration or connected to in some financial means. Bribery, illegal lobbying involvement, and even money laundering (see Abramoff and K-Street.)
Like the bumper sticker says: “Someone please give bush a blowjob so we can impeach him!”
Related posts:
- CNN.com – Bush: U.S. will succeed in Iraq or troops will leave – Mar 21, 2006
- CNN.com – Bush backs Dubai port deal, vows veto – Feb 21, 2006
- CNN.com – Bush acknowledges declassifying intelligence – Apr 10, 2006
- CNN.com – Baghdad targeted civilian killings soar in May – Jun 6, 2006
- CNN.com – Bush to promote gay marriage amendment – Jun 1, 2006
