IOKIYAGK*

*It’s okay if you’re a good king.

I think we need a new set of initials to replace the IOKIYAR that people always used to smirk, “It’s okay, if you’re a Republican.”

This story starts out fine, but doesn't last - just like the Obama hope talk in the campaign.

President Obama has directed federal agencies to initiate reviews for all of former President George W. Bush's signing statements.

  Raw Story

I hope he gets a second term, because he’s going to need the time. Oh, he said “initiate”, not complete.

"When signing legislation, Bush often would use such statements to direct officials to ignore parts of the law he thought were incorrect or restricted the administration's constitutional powers," said the Associated Press.

President Bush's application of signing statements doubled all the statements of all the prior American presidents, combined.

[...]

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, in a sideways jab at Bush, said that President Obama will not attempt to invalidate laws with signing statements as President Bush did. [...] The President will "not ask that laws be disallowed simply by executive fiat," he said during a Monday press conference.

Good. But wait. That’s not all.

"But Mr. Obama also signaled that he intends to use signing statements himself if Congress sends him legislation that has provisions he decides are unconstitutional," reported the New York Times. "He pledged to use a modest approach when doing so, but said there was a role for the practice if used appropriately."

He's the decider of whether legislation is unconstitutional, just like Bush was the decider. Yeah, that’s what I thought. It’s okay for Good King Obama to have unlimited powers, because he’s wise and good.

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

The change was in the ruler, not so much in the rules.