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Presidential Signing Statements

by Dean Koepke, US-First founder	Aug 4, 2006

I just finished sending the following note to my Congressman, two Senators, and the President, and I suggest that each person who reads this does the same:

I would like you to introduce and support a Sense Of The Congress resolution in which The Congress holds as unconstitutional the practice of Presidential Signing Statements in which the President declares that he will act in opposition to part or all of legislation that he signs into law, and that he should instead exercise his option to veto any legislation with which he disagrees in part or in whole if he cannot in good faith enforce it. This Sense Of The Congress resolution should further state that The Congress will be disposed to impeaching a President who continues or resumes this practice.

I will state by way of background that I have been an activist within the Republican Party and this is not to be construed as an indictment of any particular policy of President Bush. Like many other fellow citizens, I am only now finding out about this activity which has been engaged in by many Presidents since Andrew Jackson.

When The President decides that he does not have to enforece legislation which he signs, he has placed himself above the US Constitution and WE THE PEOPLE -- and this cannot be alloed to go un-checked. Let him have the balls to veto legislation, tell us his reasoning, and take the accompanying glory or lumps.