In the Matter of George W. Bush v. the Constitution

Commentary ^ | June 2008 | Gabriel Schoenfeld

[Schichtel]

You Have to be a COMPLETE IDIOT

[SandRat]

[alice_in_bubbaland]

George W. Bush.....saving our a$$ whether we like it or not.........

Dims just don’t get it...sadly most Americans have forgotten it.

[Malsua]

Too bad Diarrhea mom in the rocky mountain chocolate factory didn’t run into Diarrhea mouth here.

[Publius]

Excellent article. Thank you for posting.

[Norman Bates]

These people take themselves WAY too seriously.

[Cobra64]

You Have to be a COMPLETE IDIOT

Who is "you?"

[DB]

It is wise to read enough of the article to know what it is about. You clearly failed to do that...

[neverdem]

(Folks, it's worth reading past the title)

LOLOL!!!

[DB]

I assume you didn’t read much of it.

You should.

[DB]

It even takes aways past the title to really know where its going.

[WayneM]

Its author, Eric Lichtblau, is a reporter for the New York Times

This tells me all I need to know about the book. Traitors all.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Good job and nicely written.

[gusopol3]

If, moreover, the history of the republic’s great crises is instructive, just as instructive are the actions taken by Presidents who have not been faced with supreme national emergencies like the Civil War or World War II yet have asserted presidential authority in much the same way. One such President, although one would never have known it at the time from the thunderous quiescence of the liberal press, was Bill Clinton. In the Clinton era, observes Goldsmith, the OLC “wrote several opinions arguing that the President could disregard congressional statutes that impinged on the commander-in-chief or related presidential powers.” These included, among other things, OLC approval of “the CIA’s original rendition program of snatching people from one country and taking them to another for questioning, trial, and punishment,” a program for which the Bush administration has been repeatedly lashed by its critics.

They also included, even more strikingly, OLC approval of the bombing raids on Kosovo, “especially controversial because of their scale, because they began without congressional approval, and because they continued in the face of the House of Representatives’ affirmative refusal, by a tie 213-213 vote, to authorize them.” The political scientist David Gray Adler, cited by Goldsmith, records that Kosovo marked the “first and only time” in our history that a President has disregarded the restrictions of the 1973 War Powers Act, and characterizes Clinton’s approach to executive power as one of “absolutist pretensions.”

never miss a chance to give da Toon a kick.

[andy58-in-nh]

Thank you for posting this. Hopefully, many of our more patient FReepers will persist past the title and introduction and discover, as I did, that the article is a devastating indictment of the New York Times, its reporters, and their war on the War on Terror.

[ExpatGator]

I would consider the Complete IDIOT to be the one that did not read the COMPLETE ARTICLE before insulting someone.

[Dr.Deth]

Bookmark

[Cacique]

btt

[21twelve]

To help out - here’s from the end of the article:

“The degree of hypocrisy in Lichtblau’s book and similar journalistic efforts is staggering. It is exceeded only by the intellectual slovenliness with which he and his colleagues have advanced their case, the quantity of self-inflating gush in which they tend to wrap themselves....”

(Sounds like one of those long rants that some Freeper posts to trolls sometimes, and which I never tire from!)