Bush enacts legislation

Deputy assistant attorney general testified to Congress yesterday about the President's 750 signing statements:

Michelle Boardman, a deputy assistant attorney general, said the statements were "not an abuse of power."

Rather, Ms. Boardman said, the president has the responsibility to make sure the Constitution is upheld. He uses signing statements, she argued, to "save" statutes from being found unconstitutional. And he reserves the right, she said, only to raise questions about a law "that could in some unknown future application" be declared unconstitutional.

"It is often not at all the situation that the president doesn't intend to enact the bill," Ms. Boardman said.

Apart from the obfuscatory language, isn't it the job of Congress to enact a bill and the job of the President to enforce it? I guess not. Now, apparently, a bill is not enacted until Bush agrees to enforce it.