Redstate has this post about Grandma Nancy Pelosi's threat to sue President Bush if he issues signing statements.
Pelosi recently told a group of liberal bloggers, "We can take the president to court" if he issues a signing statement, according to Kid Oakland, a blogger who covered Pelosi’s remarks for the liberal website dailykos.com.
"The president has made excessive use of signing statements and Congress is considering ways to respond to this executive-branch overreaching," a spokesman for Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, said. "Whether through the oversight or appropriations process or by enacting new legislation, the Democratic Congress will challenge the president’s non-enforcement of the laws."
Speaking of overreaching, Congress is engaging in a little overreaching itself when it tries to conduct the war in Iraq, an act that infringes upon the executive branch's expressed constitutional powers.
Says Redstate:
Nancy and her buddies see this as a threat of adding signing statements to future supplemental spending bills. To Nancy and the Dems, this is not a war with real American lives and real American security at stake; rather, it is a cynical game of political one-upmanship. Nancy thus wants to play the judicial branch against the executive branch to benefit her party's political prospects.
I recall a point not long ago when Democrats screamed about naked partisanship. But the purpose of these exercises is to plan the sort of political chicken Democrats love so well.
As Dana at CSPT has said before, if Democrats don't support the war, fine. Don't fund it. But stop playing politics with the funding and then trying to pass off the blame on the president.
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