It seems as if their sacred "principles" only apply when convenient. I would love to see their reaction if the White House demanded to see all of the internal memos from Ron Paul's office.
It seems as if their sacred "principles" only apply when convenient. I would love to see their reaction if the White House demanded to see all of the internal memos from Ron Paul's office.
Excellent analysis.
Most of the folks who are screaming about Bush being worse than Clinton, yada yada, yada, practically curse the ground he walks on, never wanted him to win and will spend the rest of his two terms jumping on every move he makes and calling it the end of the world and Bush a traitor or similar. It's so predictable.
Of course, anyone who dares to even give the man the benefit of the doubt in any way will be blasted all over the room - as we see here. It gets quite nasty, such is the hate for George W. Bush from these chest-thumping, self-righteous 'convenient constitutionalists', as you would have them. Of little consequence overall but as I said, quite predictable.
I certainly don't believe this one instance of executive privilege being used makes G. W. Bush the monster and Gore-clone some of the more hysterical among us claim. I also believe the country will survive this particular case of executive privlege being involked as it has before, in every administration, despite the sky-is-falling hyperventilating screeds we see from the Bush-haters. Still, the unrelenting animus toward the President is a bit daunting, but then, he's a Republican, his name is Bush and he won an election, which seems to really drive some people a bit mad. Interesting. Of course, it's really all about upholding the constitution, isn't it? Right. Got it.
No truer words have been written on here recently!
I didn't appreciate Burton during the Chinagate hearings or during Pardongate with his grandstanding so why would I appreciate him now. One of the problems with the clinton adminstration was their declaring executive privilege where there was none! But it was disgraceful the way Burton kept leaking everything his committee got their hands on!