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(Yes, I foolishly watched the Chimp-in-Chief's press conference on CNN this morning. It happens some times.)
When asked if domestic spying was illegal, he answered slippery-ly by saying no, presidential privilege, etc. Then asked directly about whether or not he broke a 1978 law that forbids domestic spying, he said, "that law is from 1978. This is 2006. It's a different world."
Huh, I just learned something new: If a law is more than 28 years old, you can ignore it.
I should go look into this! I bet I could steal cars and claim "Executive Privilege: Hey, the prez is doing it, why can't I?"
Gee-sus. If you're one of the people who elected this man, I hope you're ashamed.
Seriously, though: This is huge. Bush admitted that he doesn't need to obey laws that are only 28 years old. That means he certainly won't see a need to obey laws that are, say, a couple hundred of years old. Or any of the amendments to it. And so on. What a fine example he sets for our children!
Chris
When asked if domestic spying was illegal, he answered slippery-ly by saying no, presidential privilege, etc. Then asked directly about whether or not he broke a 1978 law that forbids domestic spying, he said, "that law is from 1978. This is 2006. It's a different world."
Huh, I just learned something new: If a law is more than 28 years old, you can ignore it.
I should go look into this! I bet I could steal cars and claim "Executive Privilege: Hey, the prez is doing it, why can't I?"
Gee-sus. If you're one of the people who elected this man, I hope you're ashamed.
Seriously, though: This is huge. Bush admitted that he doesn't need to obey laws that are only 28 years old. That means he certainly won't see a need to obey laws that are, say, a couple hundred of years old. Or any of the amendments to it. And so on. What a fine example he sets for our children!
Chris
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This may be the first time a president has ever willingly admitted to performing a impeachable offense.
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Your giving him too much credit. The American Public didn't elect him in 2000. He lost the public vote and was placed in his position by other members of the government.
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But, then again, I guess that makes me a tin-foil-hat-wearing looney conspiracy theorist.
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But he doesn't fuck, as far as we know.
Maybe that's the problem.
At least our last elected prez was human.
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D.
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A tyrant: That's who's in the White House. Just frickin' scary.
(I recently made this icon but didn't use it because it makes light of Bush; he now seems too creepy to equate with something as cute as a chimp.)
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"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." (transcript is on CNN)
See? Proof that the public is not only herdlike in mentality, but downright insidiously stupid. It seems more and more likely to me that Mussolini's "Strong Man" theory was, uh, right.
How depressing. Anywhere else the people would be flipping out, surrounding the White House, etc. What do we get here? Nods from the church pews.
*sigh*
It's like Cromwell all over again.
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If the 1978 privacy laws are invalid, I suppose the Ten Commandments and the rest of the Bible is REALLY no good anymore.
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Let's see:
* He alienated the liberals before he even ran for Prez.
* He alienated the conservatives when he started spending up the wazoo, then alienated them again by mocking the Constitution.
* He alienated the right-wing extremists by backing off some of their religio-political agenda.
* Now he's alienating the centrists by disregarding the law in general.
Hm. Congratulations, Bush voters! You've got a winner! (Oh, wait; I meant "wiener.")
Chris
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Mind if I add you as a friend?
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Well as a matter of fact, there is a protest being set up to do just that. On January 31st all over the nation there will be protests to drown out the State of the Union and it's inevitable lies and to demand that BUSH STEP DOWN and take his whole program with him. Then on Feb 4th there will be a mass protest in DC.
Go to World Can't Wait (http://www.worldcantwait.org) and check it out. Read and sign the call. Tell your friends. GO TO THE PROTEST! There's one in your area check the web site.
People keep telling me that it can't happen here. There's no mechanism to unseat a sitting President. All I can say is that it sure ain't gonna happen if we just sit and wait. The Dems can't even make up their minds to filibuster Alito. I sure hope they do, and I hope they take back the house in '06 but I'm not waiting.
We've all seen the signs, we know where we are headed, we can't get off the bus so we need to change drivers NOW.
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This is not an impechment, this is the struggle to save our democracy and the world by getting rid of the fascists/dictators/kings whatever you want to call them that have taken it over.
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I also asked Brownback, who is against this warantless spying, whether he was going to vote for Alito, who will only approve of such lawlessness.
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The comedy continues, as you know, since Gonzalas's kvetchings before Congress has indicated that the 'leak' has compromised the ongoing 'intelligence operations', and offered aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of 'war like tax break requirement phase'.... without thinking that it was the President who confirmed the initial Leaks, hence, well, Uh, blowing the cover on the well known FISA court system, and, gosh, that would also mean that the president has come out openly offering aid and comfort to the enemy....
So we shall clearly have to work out the other comedy in all of this... Some GOP players were hoping to pass legislation to clean up what ever bogus defects existed in FISA, and the president was clear that there was no need to even try to make his 'offering aid and comfort to the enemy' retroactively legal...
Ah yes, but will americans really care much about this one way or the other?