(Updated: Originally published October 6, 2006)
"Bush cites authority to bypass FEMA law; Signing statement is employed again" by Charlies Savage/Boston Globe October 6, 2006
President Bush this week asserted that he has the executive authority to disobey a new law in which Congress has set minimum qualifications for future heads of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Bush signed the homeland-security bill on Wednesday morning. Then, hours later, he issued a signing statement saying he could ignore the new restrictions. Bush maintains that under his interpretation of the Constitution, the FEMA provision interfered with his power to make personnel decisions.
[Wonder if he issued a signing statement with the new FISA law.
Is there any law this guy DOESN'T IGNORE?]
Bush's signing statement challenged at least three-dozen laws specified in the bill. Among those he targeted is a provision that empowers the FEMA director to tell Congress about the nation's emergency management needs without White House permission.
Bush said: "[This law] purports to limit supervision of an executive branch official in the provision of advice to the Congress."
Despite the law, he said, the FEMA director would be required to get clearance from the White House before telling lawmakers anything.
[And you, dear reader, think they are going to pass this dictatorship on to someone else?
THINK AGAIN, reader!]
Bush said nothing of his objections when he signed the bill with a flourish in a ceremony Wednesday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Bush proclaimed at the time:
"[The bill is] an important piece of legislation that will highlight our government's highest responsibility, and that's to protect the American people. It will also help our government better respond to emergencies and natural disasters by strengthening the capabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency."
[Aren't you sick of this lying sack of shit yet, Amurka?]
Bush's remarks at the signing ceremony were quickly e-mailed to reporters, and the White House website highlighted the ceremony.
By contrast, the White House minimized attention to the signing statement. When asked by the Globe on Wednesday afternoon if there would be a signing statement, the press office declined to comment, saying only that any such document, if it existed, would be issued in the 'usual way.'
[Catching on to how EVIL, DEVIOUS, and SNEAKY this fucking administration is, reader?]
The press office posted the signing-statement document on its website around 8 p.m. Wednesday, after most reporters had gone home. The signing statement was not included in news reports yesterday on the bill-signing.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment about its signing statement."
[See how these guys operate now? TOTAL LIES and PROPAGANDA!
Goebbels would have been proud!
Globe's lead of this day was that the T will start random searches for bombs. POLICE STATE is HERE, and people don't even know it.
What will we do when the shit hits the fan (soon now)?
Who can stand against these megalomaniacs?]
