Comments on: L’Etat, c’est George? Not What the Founders Had in Mind

By: MarkH

MarkH — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I suppose Bush & Co think LBJ and Nixon had Constitutional powers to keep the Vietnam war going forever too.

Lovely.

By: farang

farang — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

From her statements, her policy stances, I believe the RW WANTS us to think they hate Hillary.

Personally, I find her an enemy of the Great America Liberal Philosophy, and a whole-hearted endorser of Cheney/Bush policy.

But hey, if we can make the left THINK we hate her, we can’t lose, no matter who is elected.

Call me a crazy fool, but it is what I see.

Who Benefits from Billary siding with the zionist/neocaon/ positions of foreign intervention? I think I answered that already.

By: p.lukasiak

p.lukasiak — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Redd…

could you address John Schmitt’s column?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....entary-hed

I’m not a legal scholar, but the wording of his column strongly suggests that he is taking a number of court opinions out of their proper context. One big warning sign (in reference to a 1972 case) is this phrase “The passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978 did not alter the constitutional situation.” Generally, statutes don’t “alter the constitutional situation.” But what FISA did was specifically prohibit statutorily warrantless evesdropping on domestic targets for intelligence gathering that was not done through FISA.

By: The Heretik

The Heretik — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I try hard not to be amazed by the total load of McKrap TM and other effluent emerging from Cheney’s mouth. Conjecture, fantasy and opinion hurl out of his mouth and are called “facts” with no connection to mere reality. History is either smudged or re-written. The dog let loose from his leash chews the neighbor’s child beyond recognition and we are told the dog must have the run of the neighborhood. A new hue most dark shadows the land.

Or something.

By: dead last

dead last — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

How many times has Bush made the claim that we are a nation of laws, and that the law must be respected?

Maybe I am hallucinating (wow, this could just be a bad dream), but it seems like he has said this at least 100 times.

I think Bush thinks he is a CEO. CEOs have dictatorial powers, relatively. Enron and WorldCom are not the biggest CEO-caused bankruptcies. Bush is running his own little “Fat Boys,” “Death Stars,” “NSAs”, and “Abu Graibs.” The guy has balls….no ethics…but he sure has balls.

By: prabhata

prabhata — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Here is what we need to do. Every progressive website can remind their readers to email their representatives in the US Senate and the House to investigate. Must repeat and phone if it does not happen. The investigation will force king george to cooperate. And how many of us believe he will? Nothing gets the people more pissed off than a president that does not cooperate with an investigation. Saturday Night Massacre is what brought Nixon down. I lived through it. I remember reading the headline and the anger I felt. I got home and wrote my senators and representative. I still have their responses.

By: justme

justme — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Actually, Cheney is right about the loss of presidential power. You have to remember, he came up in the Nixon White House. Nixon is arguably the last US President to wield significant personal power. After him, the people and congress subjected everything to much greater scrutiny (current regime excepted). Nixon killed the nation’s blind trust in the office. Rightfully so, IMHO. Cheney looks back to his glory days, and wants all that and then some. We know he’s already absolutely corrupt, he wants the absolute power to go with it.

By: 56

56 — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Infantile, dufus, bravado supported by machiavellian/criminal opportunism = “kleptocracy” = one hell of a lot of hard work for conscientious souls who want to save the world.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Jeralyn’s post re: admissibility of evidence from illegal surveillance:

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/013495.html

By: prabhata

prabhata — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

L’Ã©tat est nous le peuple. That’s what the constitution says. All laws emerge from “We the people”. In the end even the US Congress is not the ultimate legislator because the people can force the Congress to change every law and the constitution itself.