Via Rich
The Blagojevich Administration:
The Blagojevich administration issued a written statement blasting the lawsuit as the work of “Republican activists.”
“It’s unfortunate that two prominent Republican activists would go to court to take health care away from families,” Blagojevich spokeswoman
Rebecca Rausch said in the statement. “President Bush wouldn’t even go to those lengths. Every Democratic leader in Illinois should join us in fighting this lawsuit and help protect the hardworking people who rely on us for health coverage so they can keep seeing a doctor.”
Actually Bush tries to do exactly what Blagojevich is doing through signing statements. He signs a law, and then he says it means the exact opposite. So Blagojevich signed a budget and now thinks he can change it at will.
There can be legitimate arguments about the Constitutionality of JCAR. I don’t find them terribly persuasive, but there are legitimate points. That said, if JCAR is ruled unconstitutional the rulemaking process will be made much, much more complicated.
Then there is the issue of Blagojevich expanding the power of JCAR by signing a bill that did that earlier in his administration.
George Bush and Rod Blagojevich are peas in a pod.
Impeach him, impeach him now!
I dont see alot of similarites between bush and blago. I to am not happy with either but Blago seems to piss me off much more. I think its the closeness of it but blago blows and needs to go.
I’m told that one of the great attractions to then-Congressman Blagojevich about running for Governor is that he could see himself approaching the office in much the same way George W. Bush approached the Presidency. Remember that in 2001-2002 (the early years of the administration), Bush was lauded for being a good manager by delegating, going to sleep early, making time for exercise, etc. In many ways he portrayed himself as the anti-Clinton — didn’t get bogged down in the details, set clear principles and stayed above the fray, etc. etc.
If you think about the entire Blagojevich administration from that framework, it begins to make sense. Just substitute “Ravenswood” for “Crawford” and “JCAR diss” for “signing statement”.