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To: TimF who wrote (4434)	11/9/2006 11:15:32 AM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Thanks for the thoughtful response and the links. What do you make of Bush's use of signing statements so frequently, almost 7 times more than Clinton so far, on bills passed by a Republican Congress? Cheney's comments early on about the need to recover the diminished power of the presidency, the aggressive stance the administration has taken with respect to "enemy combatants", the excessive use of signing statements as compared to previous administrations, the Bush comment about the Constitution being a "piece of paper", his comment in 2004 that he had "political capital and intended to spend it" and many other instances and examples point to an administration that was overly aggressive to the point where many, including Republicans, felt it was overreaching and going too far into the grey areas of constitutional law.