According to a task force group from the American Bar Association, President Bush continuing trend of signing personal exceptions to laws he has just signed violate the U.S. Constitution.
"The ABA group, which includes a one-time FBI director and former federal appeals court judge, said the president has overstepped his authority in attaching challenges to hundreds of new laws.
"The attachments, known as bill-signing statements, say Bush reserves a right to revise, interpret or disregard measures on national security and constitutional grounds."
"ABA's president, Michael Greco: . . ."If left unchecked, the president's practice does grave harm to the separation of powers doctrine, and the system of checks and balances that have sustained our democracy for more than two centuries."
President Bush has about 800 of these "bill-signing statements", while ALL the other Presidents combined have signed about 600. So, it appears that the President is indeed completely bypassing federal & constitutional laws which have stood for over 200 years.
Use the CNN.com link above to read the whole story. I anxiously wait for the 2008 elections.
NET NEUTRALITY
So there's been this debate about "Net Neutrality" going on lately. Basically (if you don't know about it) some people want to make an "express lane" for information transfer for "accredited" companies. Google, Amazon, eBay, and news channel websites would be among these.
Most smaller and personal websites, such as small businesses or, ahem, blogs probably would be among those to use the fast lane. Most of these websites would be required to use the slow lane, and have slower transfer times...meaning pages load slower & info doesn't get to you as quickly.
While it's something to be concerned about, as that would be WRONG to do, but why not have a little fun with it? Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who heads the committee on the internet, does an excellent job in describing the internet & how it works.
Then the Daily Show does a good job explaining what the net neutrality act means to you.
You have to understand Democratic humor to get it, though. Until next time...
-Adam
2 comments:
Wait, wait, wait. Hold on a second.
Bush is violating the consitution? Why isn't the media talking about it?
Oh, that's right.
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