here is a perfect encapsulation of the problem with Congress:
But it isn’t just Democrats who don’t care about the Constitution. Remember in 2002 when McCain Feingold was passed by a Republican congress and signed by a Republican President?
Indeed, in his Presidential signing statement issued last Wednesday, Mr. Bush declared that the McCain-Feingold bill contains “provisions [that] present serious constitutional concerns” and “questions [that will] arise under the First Amendment.” In particular, the President expressed his “reservations about the constitutionality of the broad ban on issue advertising, which restrains the speech of a wide variety of groups on issues of public import in the months closest to an election.” The President differentiated these constitutional objections from other shortcomings he described “as a policy matter.”
Yet he still signed the bill.
I was as angry at President Bush then as I am at the Democrats now. All of these people took this oath when they took office:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Punting that responsibility to the Judiciary is an abdication of responsibility and a violation of personal honor.
UPDATE:
Ok, there is indeed a difference in the two examples. At least President Bush cared enough to worry about whether the law he was signing was constitutional. President Obama, by contrast, just wants to make fun of the people who disagree with him. What a disgrace to the office these rallies are.
UPDATE II: included the actual oath above. from Kim Priestap