Oh, to be among the high and mighty as they stir from their alpine reaches and stretch forth their protective wings of Truth and Justice upon their little charge milling below like sheep:

“If Congress passes a law telling the people in the bureaucracy that ‘this is what you should do,’ and the president signs it but attaches a statement saying ‘I don’t want you to do it,’ how is that going to affect the motivation of the bureaucracy?” she said.
The task force also includes several prominent legal scholars, such as Harold Koh , dean of Yale Law School and a former official in the Reagan and Clinton administrations; Kathleen Sullivan , former dean of Stanford Law School; Charles Ogletree , a Harvard law professor; and Stephen Saltzburg , a professor at George Washington University Law School.
Saltzburg — who was a Justice Department official under Reagan and the first president Bush, as well as a prosecutor in the Iran-Contra scandal — said he did not believe that signing statements were unconstitutional.
But, he said, frequent use of them could create bad perceptions about whether the US government obeys the rule of law.
“The president can say anything he wants when he signs a bill,” Saltzburg said. “[But] what does it say about respect for the Constitution and for the notion of checks and balances to have the president repeatedly claim the authority not to obey statutes, which he is signing into law?”

I’m sure something will come of this, you know, jail time and stuff. Let’s all hold our breath.

…ok, mebbe I’m being too harsh. But you know, it’s not like all of us haven’t been paying attention. What do you say Lambert- should we form a commission too, or just go directly to the Hague with what we’ve got?

Hat tip to Holden.