Obama breaks another campaign promise, uses signing statement
By Rizzuto

Thu Mar 12, 2009 - Has this guy kept a single promise yet? Here's Obama during the campaign, pledging not to use signing statements as a way of doing an "end run around congress":



How very odd then that President Obama should decide to use a signing statement in this recent spending bill. This from The Walll Street Journal:
President Barack Obama signed a $410 billion spending bill Wednesday that includes thousands of pet projects inserted by lawmakers, even as he unveiled new rules to restrict such so-called earmarks.

At the same time, after Democrats criticized former President George W. Bush's signing statements, Mr. Obama issued one of his own, declaring five provisions in the spending bill to be unconstitutional and nonbinding, including one aimed at preventing punishment of whistleblowers.
I guess Obama is overstepping his role and meddling with the legislative process, as John Conyers said in 2007. Time for an investigation?

Anyone finding it ironic that Obama's using a signing statement, which he campaigned against, in order to make a statement about a bill filled with over 9,000 earmarks, which he campaigned against? Can we heap any more broken promises onto this one bill?





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