Impeach Tyrants

Susannah : 13th Aug 2006 - 16:32 GMT

I'm sorry but that looks more like Reagan to me than Bush.

EvilGentleman: 13th Aug 2006 - 17:00 GMT

Looks like Ted Koppel or Humphrey Bogart to me, but with GW's lipless smile and no hat or poofy hair. I guess realistic stencil portraits are really hard to make.

Susannah : 16th Aug 2006 - 00:04 GMT

Specter prepping bill to sue Bush
WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful Republican committee chairman who has led the fight against President Bush's signing statements said Monday he would have a bill ready by the end of the week allowing Congress to sue him in federal court.
"We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional," Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said on the Senate floor.

Specter's announcement came the same day that an American Bar Association task force concluded that by attaching conditions to legislation, the president has sidestepped his constitutional duty to either sign a bill, veto it, or take no action.

Bush has issued at least 750 signing statements during his presidency, reserving the right to revise, interpret or disregard laws on national security and constitutional grounds.

"That non-veto hamstrings Congress because Congress cannot respond to a signing statement," said ABA president Michael Greco. The practice, he added "is harming the separation of powers."