Bush, The Cheat Executive

Via Talking Points Memo, news that Bush signed the renewal of the USA Patriot Act, but at the same time claimed it didn't apply to him. See the Boston Globe's Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement:

When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers.

...The statement represented the latest in a string of high-profile instances in which Bush has cited his constitutional authority to bypass a law.

In other news, his promise to Laura to take out the trash was revealed as null and void, as he had his fingers crossed when he made it.