Bush decided that the new provisions in the Patriot Act that provided oversight on the Executive branch don't apply to him:
After the bill-signing ceremony, the White House discreetly issued a ''signing statement," an official document in which a president lays out his interpretation of a new law. In the statement, Bush said he did not consider himself bound to tell Congress how the Patriot Act's powers were being used and that, despite the law's requirements, he could withhold the information if he decided that disclosure would ''impair foreign relations, national security, the deliberative process of the executive, or the performance of the executive's constitutional duties."
Nice. So much for the Republicans doing anything to hold themselves in check.
Speaking of Republicans going wild. Turns out that Katherine Harris, who said that she would spend her $10M inheritance as a widow's mite on her Congressional run, is actually not going to spend the inheritance, or spend "everyting I have" on the race. So much for the whole martyr thing.
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