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1/4/2007
3:49:13 pm EST
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Bush Signing Statement May Change Mail Laws
Author: Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press Source: Newsday (NY)
Title: BUSH SIGNING MAY CHANGE MAIL LAWS
A signing statement attached to postal legislation by President Bush last month may have opened the way for the government to open mail without a warrant.
The White House denies any change in policy.
The law requires government agents to get warrants to open first-class letters.
But when he signed the postal reform act, Bush added a statement saying that his administration would construe that provision "in a manner consistent, to the maximum extent permissible, with the need to conduct searches in exigent circumstances. ..."
"The signing statement raises serious questions whether he is authorizing opening of mail contrary to the Constitution and to laws enacted by Congress," said Ann Beeson, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union. "What is the purpose of the signing statement if it isn't that?"
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| Instead Of... | Jan 7th. at 10:38:23 pm EST
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Sela (Happyplace, New York) - Email Me
Instead of calling it FatherLand Security we were going to call it Homeland Security...
Alot of old Germans were really disappointed though...
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| Crafting A Nation | Jan 5th. at 12:13:47 pm EST
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Michael Welch (Audubon, New Jersey) - Email Me
What must the citizens of other nations think of us when an elite cabal of administrative appointees overide the authority of their own nation's citizens to determine the course of their destiny? What do we think of ourselves?
Shining beacon, indeed!
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| The Reasons Shrub Has Not Been Impeached... | Jan 5th. at 8:37:41 am EST
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steward (Jackson, New Jersey) - Email Me - Web
is that it would simply do no good to impeach him.
After impeachment, he then has to be convicted by the Senate by a two-thirds vote (which means ALL of the Democrats and Independents PLUS at least 15 Republican Senators, and that's with the Senator from SD that's still recovering from brain surgery present and voting to convict) .
Any impeachment without those votes being there will be likely to actually increase the power and the popularity of the current President.
One thing Pelosi and Byrd -could- do, and could probably get through both houses, is to pass a joint resolution stating that "it is the sense of the Congress that 'signing statements' such as the current President has been making are contrary to the Constitution of the United States of America and infringe upon the powers of the Congress."
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| Yet Another Outrage | Jan 5th. at 2:25:45 am EST
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J & V Enterprises (Sweetwater, Tennessee) - Email Me
Under our constitutional system of government the seperation of powers is quite clearly defined as are the rights and responsibilities of each branch of government.
The power to make laws in invested only in the legislative branch, the executive may only accept or reject a proposed law in it's entirety. If the proposed law is rejected, the legislative branch is empowered to overide the rejection and force the proposed law onto the books.
This President has shown repeatedly that he utterly disregards the form of government that our founding fathers created after the Articles of Confederation proved unworkable. Bush has shown through abuse of the signing statements to be an enemy of the state. The Dems should really reconsider their choice to not launch impeachement proceedings, as they are far more waranted than they were for a simple case of having an affair while in office and then being unwilling to admit to it.
Jason
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| Honesty, Patriotism, And Common Sense | Jan 4th. at 11:14:39 pm EST
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Stormsinger (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) - Email Me
First of all, no president has *ever* felt the need to issue signing statements to keep things just as they were. The very idea is ludicrous. Second of all, Mr. Bush has felt the need to outdo all 41 of his predecessors in this area. Apparently, no law is quite "good enough" coming out of the combined Houses of Congress for Mr. Bush.
We have never been so universally disrespected outside our borders in the entire existence of this country. We will not earn the respect of the world's people by been sheep, saying yes and amen to every outrageous thing our leaders say and do. That's not patriotism. That's what Bush might expect, might tell you is patriotic, but he'll be mouthing the same words heard by the citizens of China, North Korea, Iran... places where voicing dissent can cause you to disappear.
Patriotism -- American Patriotism -- DEMANDS dissent. Dissent raged in the Continental Congress, dissent raged in the streets, in the pubs, in the media. And from that dissent, discussion, impassioned speeches and arguments rose our government. To say that "good Americans" should keep quiet about how much we do NOT agree with what our leaders are doing is to say that this country should never have been born. America was born in dissent and dissatisfaction with incompetant and self-serving leadership.
America will die when no voice is raised in protest against anything those in charge choose to say or do.
And by the way, when do the impeachment hearings start? They're about four years overdue.
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| (none) | Jan 4th. at 4:18:25 pm EST
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Llunmere (Germantown Hills, Illinois) - Email Me
And he was doing so good at pretending to be normal since the dems have been elected. Such a shame, but this man or shrub does need to be taken out of office.
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