I believe now it means: WAH!WAH!WAH!

Even as a non-lawyer, I still have to laugh at lawyers pontificating about “activist” judges. I have not yet heard a distinction between activist judges and the opposite, whatever that is, other than “judges whose decisions we don’t agree with”. Now, maybe there’s some really technical distinction I’m missing, but if there is it sounds like you are missing it, too.

She, V Consp, OrinKerr, Yoo, Goldsmith — my mind just boggles. They ALL teach? Not at nightlaw schools?

Next, we’ll be staffing university biology departments with the faculty of the Discovery Institute, and civil engineering departments will be taught by 9/11 conspiracy theorists.

http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm…..sequence=0

The CBO report came out in Sept. 2003 and anticipated a draw down in forces to begin by March 2004 to a sustainable occupation of 67,000 to 106,000 personnel if all active
Army, the Army National Guard, Marine Corps and Marine Reserve Regiments were used. It further estimated the cost of such an occupation would cost between $14 billion to $19 billion annually.

First off, this report is nearly 3 years old and much has changed both in Iraq and in our armed forces since then. The insurgency took off, the occupation remained in combat mode and never shifted to policing, troop levels have been maintained at higher than sustainable levels for 2 years, Iraq slid into civil war, recruitment numbers and quality decreased as did retention of experienced but worn out veterans.

The costs cited are another clue that the CBO report is describing a fundamentally different reality. We are probably spending around $90-100 billion annually in Iraq not the $14-19 billion in the CBO report. The premises have changed. As Iraq’s descent into chaos shows, even the present overextended US commitment is insufficient. And there is a vast difference between occupation duty which the CBO’s report anticipated and the current ongoing combat. With the high costs of the operation and the degradation of our forces, I think it is clear that we do not have the will, the people, or the resources to maintain 100,000 troops in a state of endless combat.

It is a serious argument, and judges need to take it seriously. If they do not, we ought to wonder why a court gets to decide what the law is and not the president. After all, the president has a sworn duty to uphold the Constitution; he has his advisers, and they’ve concluded that the program is legal. Why should the judicial view prevail over the president’s?

Ann Althouse, in NYT op ed, on why Judge Taylor’s opinion was so bad. So “light” on the law. So activist, and yet so “uses old cases” and so “upholds the Congressionally enacted statute.” Judge Taylor just doesn’t understand this simple, non-activist legal premise (for which there is no citation of any kind).

The President, and not Judges, should get to decide how the law should be interpreted.

She, V Consp, OrinKerr, Yoo, Goldsmith — my mind just boggles. They ALL teach? Not at nightlaw schools?

With this out there as faculty, the work product of the Seton Hall kids is just that much more impressive.

Holy crap — I just got a push poll call from the Economic Freedom Fund. The wingnuts are gunning for WV votes already. Jeebus, this election cycle is going to get ugly.

I just looked this website for the “Economic Freedom Fund”. Is this the right-wing equivalent of Working Assets?

We’ll see how much magic the pasty-faced college drop-out and youthful dirty-trickster for Nixon, Karl Rove has left.

We’ll see if his efforts to re-write history about the Katrina debacle will cause more people to loathe and despise Bush and his myth-makers.

Spike Lee vs. Turdblossom.

-GSD

Too bad spike lee doesn’t have the total media coverage that Mr. T. Blossom does. I really hope this media blitz doesn’t get out of control (although, judging by today’s events, it already has) and I hope some M$M finds the balls to refute any false claims (and you know there’ll be plenty) the ChimpAdmin makes. Hopefully they will remember how they felt, how emotional they got while knee-deep (literally) in the crisis.

Suzanne Malveaux is helping to perpetrate this fraud on the nation.

Phony fuckers. Liars and malcontents.

-GSD