By decree of the king!
the time to b*tch about this was the whole gaggle of presidential authorizations under Bush which were every bit as much infringements on the liberty of the nation, and you didn’t hear a peep.....
Now we have a “bad” guy in there, and you folks who...., I dunno, I guess you assumed we would have a Republican pres forever, you are going to have a chance to see what us wack jobs screaming about personal liberty were whining about.
They way to preserve liberty is not to “put good guys in office”- although that is important. It is to restrict the power of the federal government to “do good” by forcing it to do as little as possible, or if you get real lucky, forcing it to act within the bounds of the constitution.
You can’t do that when you have social conservatives lusting for that fed power to start pulling them levers for the sake of godliness, though.
Ain't the Imperial Presidency just grand? Oh, how pleased the Bushbots must be!
A line from Becket comes to mind. I shall not quote it thogh..