Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer wrote:
 EH> Ross Sauer -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RS>> "Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
 RS>> news:14414$POL_DISORDER{at}JamNNTPd:

 SH>>>>> Today, Obama attached to legislation a signing statement so
 EH>>>   brazen in SH>> its hypocrisy that democrats in Congress are
 EH> bitching
 EH>>>   about it. SH>> Listening to the moonbats here and
in the other
 EH>>>   echoes, when GW issued SH>> a signing statement, it
had the effect
 EH>>>   of nullifying the Constitution SH>> (this was
particularly true of
 EH>>>   the criminal Chirnside and the SH>> illiterate
Ceppa.  Otto Archie
 EH>>>   has no idea what a signing statement SH>> is). 
Everyone seems
 EH> to be
 EH>>>   quiet about the Obama statement, though.

 RS>>>> Just what was this signing statememnt?

 EH>>> It was exactly the same thing Bush's signing statement was.

 RS>> Word for word? Bull.

 EH> Read it for yourself, moron.

 EH> http://tinyurl.com/n6yljj
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^>
 RS>> Now what bill was this on, and what did Obama say in the statement?
 RS>> I won't be holding my breath waiting for answer.

 EH> 

 EH> "During the previous administration, all of us were critical of (Bush's)
 EH> assertion that he could pick and choose which aspects of congressional
 EH> statutes he was required to enforce," the Democrats wrote in their
 EH> letter to Obama. "We were therefore chagrined to see you appear to
 EH> express a similar attitude."

 EH> The letter was signed by Reps. David Obey of Wisconsin, chairman of the
 EH> House Appropriations Committee, and Barney Frank of Massachusetts,
 EH> chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, as well as Reps.
 EH> Nita Lowey and Gregory Meeks, both of New York, who chair subcommittees
 EH> on those panels.

 EH> 

 RS>>>> And let's see, what did you say about the hundreds of signing
 EH>>>   statements RS> Bush made?

 RS>>>> "........"

 RS>>>> Figures.

 EH>>> No, what figures is that you and all the other moonbats whined on and
 EH>>> on about Bush usurping the Constitution with his signing statement
 EH> and
 EH>>> then not utter a single word about Obama doing the exact same thing.

 RS>> IF, and this is a big IF, Obama is misusing the signing statements
 EH> the way
 RS>> Bush did, he's just as wrong.

 EH> Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

 EH> You never disappoint.

 EH> Ed

Just to set the record straight, the above tinyurl is to the very article
Otto claims to have researched himself.

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