The Imperial Presidency 2.0 - - - The New York Times

[spanone]

~~snip~~ Observing President Bush in action lately, we have to wonder if he
actually watched the election returns in November, or if he was just rerunning the
2002 vote on his TiVo.

--- Just before the Christmas break, the Justice Department served notice to Senator Patrick Leahy — the new chairman of the Judiciary Committee — that it intended to keep stonewalling Congressional inquiries into Mr. Bush’s inhumane and unconstitutional treatment of prisoners taken in anti-terrorist campaigns.

---Also last month, Mr. Bush issued another of his infamous “presidential signing statements,” which he has used scores of times to make clear he does not intend to respect the requirements of a particular law — in this case a little-noticed Postal Service bill. The statement suggested that Mr. Bush does not believe the government must obtain a court order before opening Americans’ first-class mail. ~~snip~~
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/opinion/07sun1.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

[illinoisprogressive]

1. thank you for linking this for us.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Why does the NYT hate America?

[man4allcats]

3. Thanks. K&R. I especially like the

last two paragraphs in this article:

We would lend such efforts our enthusiastic backing and hope Mr. Leahy, Mr. Durbin and other Democratic leaders are not swayed by the absurd notion circulating in Washington that the Democrats should now “look ahead” rather than use their new majority to right the dangerous wrongs of the last six years of Mr. Bush’s one-party rule.

This is a false choice. Dealing with these issues is not about the past. The administration’s assault on some of the nation’s founding principles continues unabated. If the Democrats were to shirk their responsibility to stop it, that would make them no better than the Republicans who formed and enabled these policies in the first place.