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to get into the "Champagne Unit" of the Texas Air National Guard, in spite of his Daddy's Member of Congress standing. Not content with flying jets around the Gulf of Mexico keeping our borders safe from hordes of Viet Cong, he quickly grew tired of military life and got transferred to Florida for the last 18 months of his duty.
Since his military records have come up missing we have no way of verifying statements from his supposed commanding officers and fellow enlisted men who claim they never laid eyes on him. So much for the rules, regulations and laws of ordinary life.
All this is a circuitous way of saying his arrogant attitude followed him into the White House.
If a law was passed he didn't like, he simply signed an accompanying letter outlining his objections while signing the bill. These signing statements delineated his objections and outlined his downright refusal to recognize or enforce any portion of the law he didn't agree to.
In his most recent signing statement on a defense authorization, he announced his refusal to enforce several provisions of the law passed by Congress, among them:
Forbid the United States from building a permanent military base in Iraq and controlling Iraq's oil reserves.
Create a wartime commission to investigate waste, fraud and abuse by military contractors and finally hold them accountable.
Offer protection for employees of government contractors who expose wrongdoing.
So enamored with this unchallenged way of skirting our laws, George has issued nearly one thousand of these letters. All his life rules and laws were for others and he now has extended that twisted notion to the Oval Office.
As the Roanoke editorial stated, "No American should be able to ignore the law without consequences. Not even a President."
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