*rolls eyes*

[kyburg]

Please don't ask me to be surprised by this.

Just. Don't. It's consistent with behavior before, during - and likely, after.

I guess I'm supposed to be grateful I know this much, huh?

Yerks.

Comments

[blukat.livejournal.com]

I just love how he thinks he can pick and choose. King George.

[snackpants.livejournal.com]

*shrug* The Executive branch can choose to ignore the oversight provisions of the Legislative branch... and they can appeal it to the Judicial branch. Checks and Balances...

I just love the amount of armchair lawyers that are out there regarding our dear Constitution. I don't even attempt to be close to an expert, especially since there is an entire profession called 'Constitutional Law'. If it was that cut 'n dry, they wouldn't need Constitutional Lawyers or Adivsors.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Yes, be grateful we still have the free press to allow us to know this much.

Outraged? yes. Surprised? maybe only that it took him this long to come out and say it.

I have one word for that son of a bitch.

Tyrant.

Rant coming elsejournal. Thanks for the heads-up.

Well...

[turandot.livejournal.com]

Yes, essentially that's the heart of Marbury v. Madison, and every ruling since based on it.

The bigger problem, as I see it, is that Congress always seems to be morally outraged by GWB's half assed and incorrect assertions about ExecutivePower, but they never seem to do anything about their outrage (like making him take a remedial American Government class, for starters), which is why Shrub gets away with the "Look at me! I can pick and choose! Wheeee!" routine with the media.

Fuck it, it has gotten pretty damn bad in Washington D.C. when we as a people are comparatively wistful for the good old days of the Nixon administration (I wasn't even a gleam in my mother's eye when Nixon was secretly wiretapping the opposition, and I feel that way).

Re: Well...

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I do remember Nixon.

He was a piker compared to this guy.

Re: Well...

[turandot.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's pretty much in line what most everyone I talk to over the age of 40 tells me.

But hey, how else is Bush going to prove the assertions of historians that he's second in incompetence only to James Buchanan wrong?

Answer: By surpassing him. Maybe he's working towards achieving midterm elections that oust the Republicans majority in Congress so he can have his own turn at having a Congress hell bent on making him look more ineffective.

P.S. - sorry for deleting and reposting this thrice. =P

[dudemungus.livejournal.com]

Trouble is, he has America afraid--even if most folks know him to be a lunatic and a fascist, they are scarerd of the alternative--I am too young to remember the fifties, but read enough about it to know this is the same game--"anybody opposed to tyranny loves communism", no arguments. Now it's terrorism. Terrorism the government built, funded, trained and let loose on the world.

I think a big paranoia is this--they have stirred up such a wasps nest in the middle east, simply saying "We elected another guy" won't be enough. THe problems started by Bush and cronies will live long after they have retired to hundred thousand dollar a year speaking engagements.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

There are ways of dealing with this. Yes, the Arab world will be ticked at us for a generation or two. But if (a) we take the attitude of the British, who have lived with terror for many generations ("I've been shot at by a better class of bastard"), and (b) endeavour to find ways to deny the terror-financing oil barons their money (which can also benefit the environment, if we're so inclined), we can minimize both the threat and its impact... We cannot be utterly safe, but we could not be utterly safe even if there were no Arabs. There will always be somebody. That's where the British attitude comes in: There will always be *somebody* going off their rocker and blowing stuff up; if we just deal with it as it comes and refuse to panic...

But the tyrants want to use that panic against us. It's up to us to fight that panic with reason.... and whatever else may be necessary.

[moropus.livejournal.com]

King George scares me. I don't believe he's rational anymore, if he ever was.