Reviewing the Revolting Year
posted by Will
Eleanor Clift at Newsweek has a nice summary of our year that will soon be mercifully over: The Year Of Big Lies.
Clift makes an excellent point about the NSA affair and the resulting political risk to the whole country of having a weakened and wounded presidency for longer than 3 more years. We are stuck with this administration until January of 2009. It is the only "leadership" we'll have in the White House.
Not only has this administration now admitted breaking the law, but it also says it has the authority to continue to do so because it says it has the authority to do so. Does this sound like the voice of an effective branch of government, capable of handling crises and the grueling work of running the country? They are using the "because we said so" argument, best known for getting children to eat vegetables. It is not a constitutional principle.
America--boys and girls: Daddy Bush and Uncle Cheney want you to eat all your bitter extralegal surveillance sprouts, and they don't want to hear you complain about how they taste like the ashes of the Bill of Rights. You'll eat them and you'll like them, because they said so.
Clift makes an excellent point about the NSA affair and the resulting political risk to the whole country of having a weakened and wounded presidency for longer than 3 more years. We are stuck with this administration until January of 2009. It is the only "leadership" we'll have in the White House.
Not only has this administration now admitted breaking the law, but it also says it has the authority to continue to do so because it says it has the authority to do so. Does this sound like the voice of an effective branch of government, capable of handling crises and the grueling work of running the country? They are using the "because we said so" argument, best known for getting children to eat vegetables. It is not a constitutional principle.
America--boys and girls: Daddy Bush and Uncle Cheney want you to eat all your bitter extralegal surveillance sprouts, and they don't want to hear you complain about how they taste like the ashes of the Bill of Rights. You'll eat them and you'll like them, because they said so.
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