Were Republicans aware that  negated the effects of laws they passed with over 500 "signing statements"
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WOW!!!   you Demo-cracks are so original
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Bush has committed several impeachable acts. The most undisputed is he lied to Congress.\n\nAs for ignoring legislation he did the same thing as governor of Texas.  Any legislation he didn’t agree with, he just allowed the bill to expire on his desk.  The Texas Hate Crimes legislation is one of those laws he allowed to expire on his desk.  When the press asked him about his actions, he told them he didn’t have to explain his actions.\n\nI wish people would have studied his failures as a governor before they voted for him as president.  I live in Dallas and I know the type of Texas Bush left behind.  We have the highest violent crime rate in the country 8 years in a row, our public hospital is so overburdened people have to wait hours to be triaged at the emergency room and have to stand in line behind up to 100 people to get their prescriptions filled.  Our school districts are under funded and the federal courts have ordered the House of Representatives to act on our failing educational system.  Dallas has such an overwhelming homeless problem, during the World Cup, the city suggested putting them in jail until the games were over.\n\nThis is the kind of America Bush would like to create for the rest of the country.\n\nAnd you're right about the GOP losing both houses. If the special election losses of Republicans to Democrats are any indication of how the November elections are going to go down, happy days will be here again!
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The GOP is going on past practices. \n\nbesides, it makes for a lightening rod to rally the forces against all things democratic and veto all legislation
103721
You can check the White House website or the Congressional website.  He has yet to veto any bills that have been presented to him, so if it cleared Congress, it became a law.
710757
Well said. Republicans had their chance and blew it. Greed and political expediency overcame good government. Now they lost credibility with not only the entire world, but with voters as well.  Funny and scary thing is that they still dont understand that what they were doing was wrong.
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That was not really a problem with the writing of it. It was ONE of the problems faced regarding how the states would be represented in Congress. The other problem regarding representation was the Great Compromise. That compromise created a bicameral legislature.
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Republicans do not complain. I'd like to here more about the precincts where the voter records were covered with"Wite-Out" and they let every body who came in vote.
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Loathe as I am to defend ANY Republican, I think that there is more going on here than a small group of John Birch Society-style conservatives 'going off the reservation' and ttrying to turn back the hands of time all by themselves.\nIt may be possible that there were numerous parts stuffed into the renewal of the act (in political jargon, its called pork-barrel politics) that the small group took exception to. This practive is not at all uncommon, where something unpopular is packaged within something that is extremely popular (or time-critical) so it will pass into law as well.\nWhile I am not at all sure of what was contained within the renewal, it might have been something about the wording that would allow for contentious debate in the future (such as granting the right to gay marriage to those subject to the Act in the chance that it became federal law), or contravened the authority of individual states' right (it has happened many times before, and took forever to fix). As well, it might have been a provision in the renewal calling for the closure or heavy regulation of a corporation in the Republican's state of constituency.\nSo, it might not have had anything to do with the Act itself, and the Democrats (who can play dirty pool almost as good as the Republicans) retaliating for not being yes men.\nObviously, more research should be done before assigning blame.
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The recent laws are the same laws we have had in place that this administration will not enforce; well, they have done a hunt and peck effort, but no big corporations that gave money to the Republican Party are being investigated, so if your an illegal in this country, be slaves to the rich, they will protect you from the laws of our Nation.
900356
No.  But it was promised because of their complaints that the Consitution lacked basic protections.  It was drafted by James Madison
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Yes I did...and it was on a DIEBOLD...\nSo that means when my vote went in...\nit was changed to what the Republicans want...\nSuch a corrupt, shallow party....
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Congress passed a bill to OUTLAW torture, Bush signed the bill into law but issued a signing statement saying that the law did not apply to him and that he could authorize anyone to torture anyone in his name.  He has also issued an executive order that withdraws the US from the Human Rights charter of the UN.\n\nThe story:\nhttp://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/01/04/bush_could_bypass_new_torture_ban?mode=PF\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?q=torture+signing+statement&hl=en&lr=&lr=&start=50&sa=N\nThere's at least 200 articles about it, I won't break my head trying to give the line item number.
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lol, good question. I love that you are aware of this. Most Americans have no idea that Bush really did this. My guess is that Bush has a lot more money and power. For some reason the republicans are rubber stamping everything for Bush. There is no debate. It's crazy. There are "secret combinations (deals)" in our gov't right now. How else could this have been legalized? I feel bad for our troops right now.
816032
The same changes that the Republicans didn't want?
715168
Of course.  They wrote the law, so it doesn't apply to them.  Political campaigns, charities and companies you've done business with before are all exempt.
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well i guess it took at least one republican to file the paperwork to outsource the job.\n\nbut that is a good one, and i plan on using this joke on my friends.
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What happened? When the republicans found out that the democrats would make sure that if they were in office there would be no draft. They could not risk losing votes from fear voters and parents that thier children would not be drafted therefore Bush promised that their would be no draft. IT was a pre election promised that he kept.