From the NY Times:
President Obama’s legal advisers, confronting the prospect of new restrictions on the transfer of Guantánamo detainees, are debating whether to recommend that he issue a signing statement asserting that his executive powers would allow him to bypass the restrictions, according to several officials…
Candidate Obama was very loud in his opposition to President Bush’s signing statements – and our liberals were pretty sure that such statements were a precursor to a fascist dictatorship in the United States. But, now things are different – the difference being that a Democrat is in the White House and so we can see the objection wasn’t to the increase in Executive power, but in the increase of Executive power to a Republican.
Just all too typical of Obama and his Democrats – made issue after issue with President Bush’s handling of the War on Terror, but once in power they are simply duplicating his actions because, let’s face it, they worked. All that opposition to Bush war and security policy was just so much campaign rhetoric…
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