It’s kinda like this kinda thing, except it’s not a thing and it’s not this kinda.
More on the Omnibus/Cuba kerfuffle:
‘The senators have this letter from Treasury saying, `We’re not going to follow this,’ but six months from now, will [Obama administration officials] remember that letter, or are they going to follow the law?” said Carlos Gutiérrez, former secretary of commerce under Bush. “Treasury is going to have to follow the letter of the law.”
Geithner’s letter opened the administration up to the same criticism Obama has lobbed at Bush, who used presidential ”signing statements” to declare that he would interpret legislative provisions his way.
Asked about the practice Tuesday at the White House, spokesman Robert Gibbs said: “It’s like a presidential signing statement, except it’s not the president, and it’s not a signing statement.”
In other words, Obama’s not actually promising anything. His tax-cheater flunky is, which will mean basically shit when push comes to shove. Great.
If Obama wouldn’t do it himself, at least Mrs. Clinton should have done it. What the hell does Geithner have to do with this?
Val,
This is happening now because Bob Menendez, Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez did not fight hard enough to remove the language from the bill.
They should know better (specially Menendez and Martinez) and they are going to learn a lesson that they should not have trusted President Obama.
The fact that the language is in the bill and is the law will enable Obama to do whatever he pleases on a later date regardless of his written promise.
Obama lied his ass-off to the American people during the campaign, he could care less about lying to the 3 amigos.