Signing Statement

This is just so insane. "Signing statements" permit Bush to sign laws and yet ignore portions of them. What was wrong with the veto system? Well, I suppose you had to keep fighting proposal after proposal. This way, you just put them through and ignore the parts you don't like. There is something fundamentally wrong with this, and I don't know why it is permitted.

In the latest, Bush will be ignoring a ban on permanent military bases in Iraq, control over Iraq's oil money, a commission to probe contracting fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan, expansion of protections for whistleblowers working for government contractors, and a requirement that U.S. intelligence agencies promptly respond to congressional requests for documents. So what part of the bill is he okay with? Why, the money for the military industry, of course.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.