A postmodern presidency

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... with Bush having now served a little more than five years, most Americans — including a significant share of Republicans — wish someone else resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The president’s store of political capital is exhausted, and his party’s dominance over Congress is in serious jeopardy ...

The truth is the truth and the rules are the rules, without exception, is a harder sell coming from supporters of a president who misled the nation into war, who has used deception to produce a budget meltdown with runaway deficits and who refuses to hold high-ranking members of his administration accountable for their mistakes and poor judgment ...

"By the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order," Bush said somewhat clumsily in 2004. "Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a court order before we do so."

The man who said that was then, and is now, overseeing a domestic spying program that rejects the need for a court-approved warrant ...

http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/2006/as-editorials-0425-editorial-6d24t4310.htm