House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending bill.
Pelosi recently told a group of liberal bloggers, “We can take the president to court” if he issues a signing statement, according to Kid Oakland, a blogger who covered Pelosi’s remarks for the liberal website dailykos.com.
“The president has made excessive use of signing statements and Congress is considering ways to respond to this executive-branch overreaching,” a spokesman for Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, said. “Whether through the oversight or appropriations process or by enacting new legislation, the Democratic Congress will challenge the president’s non-enforcement of the laws.”
Wow this is a new one on me! I had no idea that politicians could sue the President for not signing a bill. But what are the chances that it will change anything?
In the 1970s, congressional Democrats tried to get the courts to force President Nixon to stop bombing in Cambodia. The courts ruled that dissident lawmakers could not sue solely to obtain outcomes they could not secure in Congress.
Oh, so it has virtually no fucking chance whatsoever. Well then by all means let Nancy Pelosi and the other Democrats waste time pursuing this tact so as to appear to be doing what the people elected this Congress and Senate to accomplish. And all the while impeachment remains "off the table".
Isn't it time that we got serious?
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