{"id":6455,"date":"2006-01-27T09:43:21","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T14:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2006-01-27T09:43:21","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T14:43:21","slug":"bush-isnt-above-the-law-he-just-outranks-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-isnt-above-the-law-he-just-outranks-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush isn&#8217;t above the law, he just outranks it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The very funny people at Fafblog put together <a href=\"http:\/\/fafblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/q-our-omnipotent-president-q.html\">a helpful Q &#038; A<\/a> with &#8220;Our Omnipotent President&#8221; that satirically makes several key points.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q. How does a War Bill become a War Law?<\/p>\n<p>A. It all begins with the president, who submits a bill to the president. If a majority of both the president <i>and<\/i> the president <i>approve<\/i> the bill, then it passes on to the president, who may veto it or sign it into law. And even <i>then<\/i> the president can override himself with a two-thirds vote. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Q. Is the president above the law?<\/p>\n<p>A. Nobody&#8217;s above the law! As commander-in-chief the president just <i>outranks<\/i> the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny because it&#8217;s true. Or then again, maybe it&#8217;s painful because it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very funny people at Fafblog put together a helpful Q &#038; A with &#8220;Our Omnipotent President&#8221; that satirically makes several key points. Q. How does a War Bill become a War Law? A. It all begins with the president, who submits a bill to the president. If a majority of both the president and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}