L’état, c’est moi*

2008: Then-Sen. Obama said he would “not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law.”

2011: President Obama uses signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law.

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Rogier is a Dutch-born, New-England-dwelling multi-media maven (OK, a writer and photographer) whose dead-tree publishing credits include the New York Times, Wired, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Reason.