Going back to the 2008 presidential campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama was reluctant to embrace the use of the signing statement as a show of executive authority as former President George W. Bush did in some circumstances as needed.
But fast-forward nearly three years later and it’s apparent now-President Barack Obama realizes that in some circumstances, such legal maneuvers are necessary, especially as it pertains to Guantanamo Bay detainees and the recent limits placed on his power on handling these detainees. And according to Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer, so-called “change” that was supposed to come hasn’t.
“And to show us that hypocrisy in politics is such a wonderful thing because it means you’ve grown up and you’ve stopped just taking cheap shots from the outside,” Krauthammer said on Tuesday’s “Special Report with Bret Baier.” “You notice that sign near Obama saying change? Well on this stuff, the change has not come,” Krauthammer said. “The Patriot Act the Democrats said was trashing the Constitution was upheld by the Democrats. Rendition trashing the Constitution, and then you had the Democrats as we heard Obama attacking the Bush administration on the signing statements, again were encroaching on the powers of the Congress? And also, for president as Obama said in that clip, ‘accumulating the power of the presidency to transfer prisoners,’ etc. – well, all of that now is stuff that Obama himself is doing.”
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