[FourPeas]

For your reading pleasure. Tell me, is academia out of touch?

[SunStar]

Crap.

[prairiebreeze]

An apathetic public? What rock do these guys hide under?

Prairie

[MEG33]

Uninformed and hopelessly wrong.

[DoctorMichael]

If its so friggin' imperial why can't he get his Judicial nominees into office?

Why can't he get a conservative Education Bill through Congress?

Why is his new EPA Administrator being held up by Hillary Klintoon?

Why isn't Zacharias Mousaoui dead?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Congressman Billybob]

Maybe I missed it. How is it that "Grand Valley State University" is a hotbed of scholarship at all, much less a center for study of the American Presidency. I'm not likely to take with much seriousness a "scholarly" program from Slippery Rock, either.

Does the term "ankle biters" come to mind? These are small and irrelevant people, trying to pump up their importance by attacking someone who is large and important. It is the same motive as would-be presidential assassins, except that academics are to timorous to actually "do" anything.

Does that about cover the waterfront?

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Paying the Wrong Piper," discussion thread on FR. Article is also on ChronWatch.

[mrustow]

Some of those expanded powers came before Sept. 11, when Congress failed to successfully challenge Bush when he withheld documents of past administrations.

The most well-known instance of the Bush administration's assumption of executive privilege has been Vice President Dick Cheney's refusal to divulge even the barest details of his Energy Task Force meetings, Rozell said.

I see. Those must be the American, er, Bushian abuses of power that caused 911.

[DaBroasta]

Doyle, a visiting professor of history at GVSU, said Bush has been able to expand his reach because there is no "counterforce" or coalition of countries that can stand up to the United States, and "there's no domestic opposition. The Democratic party has rolled over."

Scary stuff. The Leninist adjunct profs are even allowed to rot the brains of kids at Podunk U in flyover country. I believe ole' Vlad did say he'd sell us the rope we'd hang ourselves with.

[antienvironmentalist]

Thanks to a pliant Congress and an apathetic public, President George W. Bush has expanded the imperial presidency, perhaps placing the United States in a more vulnerable position than before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

Why then have there been no more planes flying into building since Prisident Bush started his "imperialist" campaign?

[TYVets]

why no BRAFFFF ALERT?

[Southack]

39 countries have troops and/or support teams in Iraq, yet these "scholars" claim that Bush is a "unilateralist."

Yawn... How will such "scholars" explain Polish troops in the coalition if they are the ones who end up capturing Saddam hussein?!

"Oh, it's unilateral except for Poland, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Japan, Australia, and 33 other countries" the uneducated morons will spout.

[damncat]

He seems to have changed his tune.

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/news/backup/experts/porter_state_of_the_union_012903.htm

[geedee]

"Grand Valley State University will be host for "Responses to Terrorism," a panel discussion featuring political science professor Polly Diven, an expert on U.S. foreign policy, and Jasiu Milanowski, a longtime peace activist and licensed ship captain."

Based on her running buddies . . . "a longtime peace activist and licensed ship captain" . . . who for some reason seems to be qualified to serve on panel discussions involving terrorism at GVSU, I would also have to question whether Mizzzzzzzzzzzzz Diven is actually "an expert on U.S. foreign policy." I suspect this is the kind of expert who would fit right in with the State Department.

[tet68]

"Bush pledged to be more open, but he's embarked on a secrecy-driven administration. Those reporters who cover the White House say this is the most secretive of all. They are obsessed with secrecy."

It's what happens when the adults are in charge.