Obama says he'll enforce the parts of the new budget bill he thinks don't infringe on his powers as president. This sounds like a case of "new boss, same as the old boss" to me. Especially since Obama said during his campaign that he wouldn't use signing statements to dodge the will of Congress. And it looks like this won't be the only instance of him issuing a signing statement to get around the will of Congress. The screencap below comes from a recent post on talkingpointsmemo.com:
So, yeah, Holder says Obama will be signing the already controversial NDAA of 2012 into law but will tack on a signing statement to make it less objectionable to him. So we're basically watching Godzilla and King Ghidora trying to decide who should destroy Tokyo. Not only does the NDAA seem to violate the US Constitution, but Obama tweaking it at his whim is dictatorial regardless of the ends he uses to justify said tweaking. Hell, if Obama and Bush can decide to not follow laws they decide are unjust, then why can't everyone?
[...] Well, I was about a week off. Instead of signing HR 1540 (aka the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012) on Christmas, as I expected, he signed it on New Year's Eve while everyone was gearing up (or already taking part in) their New Year celebrations. What's even better is that he included one of those signing statements which I'm pretty sure he said he would not do. [...]
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