petardier ([personal profile] petardier) wrote2006-01-10 12:09 am

Activist Presidents? (part 2)

Not only has our president used so called signing statements over 500 times (Clinton created 105), he's also used one to say that he reserves the right to ignore the torture ban that Congress recently passed.

Here's the story:

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/13568438.htm?source=rss&channel=krwashington_nation

I still think it's strange that Knight Ridder has their site on Realcities, but it looks real enough.

[identity profile] gregw.livejournal.com 2006-01-10 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
The only reason I can figure that we haven't marched on Washington yet and demanded his head on a pike is that he and his cronies have done too good a job keeping us all divided up and throwing rocks at each other.

I still think it's strange that Knight Ridder has their site on Realcities, but it looks real enough.

It does seem odd, but RealCities is a KR company (http://www.kri.com/papers/krd_realcities.html).