For the most part, the President's flips from his campaign have either been welcomed (Iraq, EFCA) or expected (the fact that the moderate candidate turned into the most liberal president since Lyndon B. Johnson), but some consistinces with the Bush administration are just sad and clearly support the thesis that once you have power, you don't want to give it up:
Democrats consistently ripped President Bush for his "signing statements" on bills -- which essentially gave the administration a legal out to ignore certain provisions in laws.
But now President Obama is doing the same thing -- and his own party is just as unhappy.
Four top Democrats sent a letter to the president Tuesday, saying they were "surprised" that Obama, in signing the war supplemental spending bill, declared he would not be bound by limits on International Monetary Fund money.
Obama has argued that the stringent limitations on IMF funding would interfere with his constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations and diplomacy.
Read More: http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0709/Dem_chairmen_warn_Obama_on_signing_statements.html
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