More Republican Hypocrisy
January 8, 2013
President Obama is regularly chastised for issuing signing statements. Most recently, after signing into law the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill for 2012, which contained a provision designed to bar the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from using taxpayer funds to “advocate or promote gun control,” the president issued this caveat: “I have advised Congress that I will not construe these provisions as preventing me from fulfilling my constitutional responsibility to recommend to the Congress’s consideration such measures as I shall judge necessary and expedient.” Republicans were silent, however, when George W. Bush issued his many signing statements.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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