Remember signing statements? Those horrible, rotten, evil, extra constitutional power grabs by Bush/Cheney, which interpreted laws upon enactment and reserved (in advance) the right to violate them?
Barack Obama just issued his first one.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Statement-from-the-President-upon-signing-HR-2346/
I'm waiting for the critics of signing statements to be outraged. Unless they weren't opposed to signing statements, but were only opposed to Bush issuing signing statements . . .
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