Why is the president ignoring our laws?

Bush, feds flout the Constitution by finding ways around laws

By Lou Dobbs

The American Bar Association claims President Bush has violated that oath by issuing hundreds of "signing statements" to disregard selected provisions of the laws that Congress passed and he signed.

A bipartisan, 11-member panel of the ABA found that President Bush is not only disregarding laws but using such signing statements far more than any president in history. In fact, Bush has used signing statements to raise constitutional objections to more than 800 provisions in more than 100 laws. All of the presidents combined before 2001 had issued only 600. - CNN
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Before I am accused of using a biased source, please note that Dobbs is quoted on Wikipedia as describing himself as a "lifelong Republican" and that I disagree with many (possdibly most) of his positions. Also note that he accuses Clinton of some of the same wrongdoing. (All he needs to do is add Teddy Kennedy and Scotty would...be very happy. )

I admit, I didn't read all of your topic. I read enough. As a person who has always voted Republican, I have a problem with Bush also.

I believe that Bush has taken our Constitutional Rights, in the name of terrorism. It is called 'Homeland Security'. I do not agree with this.

I feel our rights are being stripped over our outrage of 9/11. Fear is allowing government to take Constitutional Rights. I don't think the citizens of the US should live in fear over one horrible terrorist invasion.

Because of one terrorist invasion, which is very serious, should we all give up our freedom? Should we stop using an airplane needed to get us to our destination? Is right that high school grad police have now have legal right of search and seizure, when it used to take a judge to order this?

I think that our corrupt, undereducated, ego-puffed, local police have too many rights. Bush gave it to any moron with a high school diploma, nothing more, to strip Americans of their rights.

I don't agree!

William F. Buckley, the father of the modern-day conservative movement says Bush is not a true conservative. Like most real conservatives, Buckley eventually catches up with what we libertarians have been saying all along!

Liberal democrats may need to be careful what they wish for in their desire to get rid of Bush if a real conservative becomes the next president! I've been seeing Newt Gingrich start to pop up on many of the news programs and giving interviews all over the place. Could this be the start of his campaign? If so, and Gingrich becomes the next president, liberal democrats will beg to have Bush back in the White House!

Yep, John, one surely wouldn't say that Bush is fiscally conservative; my grandaughter's grandchildren will still be paying for Bush's blunders (literally and figuratively speaking).
Newt --- OMG!

Financially conservative it the entire reason I ever voted Republican. I do guess politics change quickly. People don't change so fast.

A working person has it rough. I always felt that Democrats had too many 'gimme' programs that I was not qualified for. No one that ever worked and tried would be qualified either. I only saw lazy people on Welfare. I don't like this at all.

I strongly objected to the 80's idea of have a kid and be on forever welfare. I have two kids, supported by earned cash, not the government. I didn't like the Democrat Party for this exploitation of the working person.

I am pro-union, which is not among the Republican belief, but we need it, as working people. We are being sold as slaves to 'free enterprise'. My wage has gone down, with the exact same job. Why?

I don't know who or what to believe anymore. Here is a person who never voted anything but Republican, completely confused. I don't like either political party. No political party does anything but represent anything but their own interest, but lie saying they are for 'the people'. I don't buy it anymore.

Who and what am I supposed to vote for?