Yes, it's Obama using a signing statement, and we don't like signing statements. We do, however, like our President showing some backbone, and he does just that.
President Obama signed into law on Friday the hard-fought legislation to fund government and keep it running through the end of September.
But Obama took the key step of issuing a signing statement, a declaration of constitutional interpretation by a president of legislation he or she might sign into law. It essentially notified lawmakers that he would not abide by the section of the law defunding the establishment of so-called "czars."Who knew the GOP had slipped anti-czar language into the budget CR deal? Good for Obama, standing up to this garbage, but the GOP will see this as Obama going back on his promise to support the deal. Just wait until the debt ceiling, when they demand a heck of a lot more as penance.
