Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Signing statements revisited

Calvin Trillan offers up a superb response to George W. Bush's use (=abuse) of signing statements.

Trillan writes the following in George W. Bush Explains His Signing Statements, Among Other Things:
They sent me a law against torture.
I signed it, although it was quaint.
I said, though, that I'm the decider
Of if something's torture or ain't.

I'll do what I want when I want to,
Though Congress's will may be foiled.
I've always done just what I want to.
You see, I'm a little bit spoiled.
There's a good bit more to the poem, which only gets better. It's in the current issue.

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