Bush said CFR was unconstitutional but signed it anyway?
Yup. In fact, he later complained, because he'd expected it to be an even BIGGER attack on freedom of speech than it had turned out to be. He mistakenly thought it was going to silence the "527" organizations, too.
But I don't know how much I'd read into his signing that bill. After all, he signs EVERY bill that reaches his desk. He's never vetoed anything, and I think he stands an excellent chance of maintaining that record through his second term. Unless a ballanced budget hits his desk, or something equally freakish.
As I see it, there IS a difference between McCain and Bush. Put a bad bill in front of Bush, and he'll sign it, even though he knows it's a bad bill, and unconstitutional.
But he won't exert himself to
see to it that the bad bill lands on his desk. He's a
passive sort of evil, for the most part. (The Medicaid drug bill was an exception.)
McCain, on the other hand, is definately an
active evil. He
works for his bad ideas, and really hard, too. You can bet that if McCain had been elected back in 2000, he'd have moved Heaven and Earth to get the AWB renewed, for instance, instead of just passively hoping Congress would sent it his way.
