Has Bush protected the Constitution as he swore to do?

Question

Since taking office in 2001, President Bush has issued signing statements on more than 750 new laws, declaring that he has the power to set aside the laws when they conflict with his legal interpretation of the Constitution. The federal government is instructed to follow the statements when it enforces the laws. note: it says his interpretation of the constitution. I know this provision has been used before, but 750 times? Your thoughts are?

Answer 1

Almost none of our politicians protect the constitution.

The Tenth Amendment states:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people.

Almost the only thing the constitution allows the federal government to do is defend the US against foreign and domestic enemies. Everything else is the responsibility of individuals and the individual states. That tells me that 99% fo what the federal government does is unconstitutional.

We need to return to a smaller less intrusive federal government with much lower taxes.

Answer 2

Probably everyone's context for judging George W. Bush (good or bad) is 9/11. Any excuses for his actions, attributes, lack of actions, so on etc. will all trace back to this point in our recent history.

This means that the American People must categorically accept the following actions by the President (listed by numbers below) as being absolutely necessary and as a "last straw effort" by the President in order to preserve our freedoms, liberties and country.
The actions are:

1. The introduction of the PATRIOT ACT which has given broad powers to many branches of the government in regards to privacy, due process and the search and seizures of American citizens.

2.Refusal and indignant unwillingness to show transparency in the Executive Branch while invoking executive orders in serious matters that should be discussed by the other two branches of government while yet considering the input, tone and will of the American People.

3. Lying to the American People about Iraq and why we should go to war. Bush, Chenney, Rumsfeld, Sr., Wolfiwitz etc, the whole group are a part of the PNAC think tank. It has been proven in White House docs that they had plans to invade Iraq in March. PNAC had plans since 97'.
a) George Bush went on TV and told the American People that Saddam refused to disarm when all intel said otherwise b) when UN inspectors could not and didn't find anything c) when later, US troops found NOTHING of the like-

c) Bush further, ignored and fired Generals in the Pentagon who advised more sound and proven strategies thus CAUSING INSURGENCY (which they warned of) which has led to MORE DEATHS OF OUR PRECIOUS BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO SERVE BEYOND THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITIES!

4. Outing Valerie Plame- sending a signal to any intelligence agents who would be a whistle-blowers. --a clear, stand in line and shut up kind of gesture!

5. Lying about what his actions would be if someone in his office was implicated in the outing of Valerie Plame.

6. Obstructing an incomplete judicial process for someone in his administration, dealing directly with the subject of Valerie Plame and implicating himself and the Vice President even further into what we already know must be true.

7. Stifling descent (our guarantee that this is ACTUALLY a Democracy and that OUR Democracy really works) and the voices of whistle-blowers, thereby implicating himself in conspiracies.


“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power."
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt

When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.
--Thomas Jefferson


“If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier … just so long as I’m the dictator.”
-- George W. Bush

Answer: No, quite far from it!
I don't think he actually knows the Constitution. I would like to hear him debate the Constitution Law Seniors in college (-without his earbud).

Answer 3

Anyone who considers the Constitution just a goddamn piece of paper must have contempt for it. If one has contempt for the Constitution how can he be expected to protect it? Vowing to protect the Constitution on his part is obviously a lie like so many other things out of his mouth. You have given us 750 reasons to think so.

Answer 4

I must admit my support for W has wained. He is determined to sell us out to the illegals and turn this country into a third world stink hole. This must be stopped!

Answer 5

Bush is above the law, so i guess upholding the constitutional law would be part of that.

Answer 6

Yes and then some. He is trying to save our country and our way of life so that we still a Constitution to protect.

Answer 7

He's wiped his pooper with it since day one.

Answer 8

He protected it in ways that CNN won't ever admit. And it's out nifty new Leftist congress that insist on using it for toilet paper.

750??? Please post CREDIBLE sources. NO the NYT is not credible.

Answer 9

No, he's writing his own.

Answer 10

TROLL