If so, then BOO.

It sounds to me in reading the above that, because Larry Summers couldn't get out some stricter executive pay terms from the Senate stimulus bill, Obama is thinking he'll SIGN the bill into law but then change some terms.

While President Barack Obama plans to sign the $787 billion stimulus bill in Denver on Tuesday, his administration will seek changes in the government’s approach to executive compensation, senior Obama adviser David Axelrod said.

A-hem. The time to get changes in the bill is BEFORE YOU FRIGGING SIGN IT INTO LAW. Or else you VETO it. Sheesh. Why does it seem any citizen who has taken civics classes know this but not the people running the country?

“We all have the same goal. We all have the same sentiment. And we want to do something that’s workable, and we’ll work with them to get to that point,” Axelrod said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs, appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” also said the administration would seek to “strike the right balance” on the compensation question by discussing changes in the provisions with House and Senate members. Asked if Obama would enforce the bill and was satisfied with it, Gibbs replied, “We will sign this bill into law on Tuesday.”

WHAT WOULD MAKE THAT DIFFERENT THAN BUSH WHO HAD ZERO RESPECT FOR HIS POSITION?????