By David Chard, opednews.com
In a Pulitzer Prize-winning article in the Boston Globe, Charlie Savage courageously published details of Bush’s outrageous “signing statements” added to new legislation. As you can see from the examples quoted from Savage’s story(Boston Globe, April 30, 2007) below, the intention of each statement is to allow an “executive loophole” whereby “the W” can essentially ignore the effect of the legislation. In other words, Bush has been assuming the powers of a dictator, ruling by decree, under our noses.