There was a time when a President broke his campaign promises he had the decency to do it in person. That time honored tradition, it seems, is just the latest casualty in the “hope and change” era of this White House. But not everyone is so quick to accept the legitimacy of President phone-in’s latest stunt.
The Hill gives us a quick sneak and peek at this story:
Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) is questioning President Obama’s use of an autopen in signing an extension of the Patriot Act.
In a letter Friday, Graves asks Obama to confirm that he saw the law prior to its autopen signing.
“Mr. President, I write to request your confirmation that S. 990, as passed by Congress, was presented to you prior to the autopen signing, as well as a detailed, written explanation of your Constitutional authority to assign a surrogate the responsibility of signing bills passed into law,” Graves wrote.
Obama signed the bill into law late Thursday night. The autopen was used because the president was in France, meeting with G8 leaders, and the bill’s provisions expired at midnight.
Graves cited Article 1 Section 7 of the Constitution, which says that the president must sign a bill to approve it into law.
Our personal advice would be for Mr. Graves to try a different tact. It’s no good threatening the man with The Constitution. He has no respect for it. It would be far better to enlist the help of Michelle and Teleprompter. Obama is mortified of those two. And we seriously doubt either of them is very happy about giving up any of their control to Autopen.
– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com
Source: The Hill
