Steve Benen Is Shocked To Find That Some People Don’t Like Signing Statements

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  June 20th at 07:06 PM  | 

Expecting consistency from left-wing political activists is folly, but rarely does one get such a glaring example as the Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen on presidential “signing statements.” Watch, and your head will spin. During the Bush years, liberal commentators suddenly discovered that they didn’t like the longstanding practice of “signing statements” by which the President offered his own interpretation of legislation he was signing, in | Read More »