So, Senator Whitehouse, I have one question for you–why haven’t you asked the House Judiciary committee to provide the Senate with Articles of Impeachment based on your’s (and theirs?) findings? Seriously, how is it that a political party can be so disorganized that they cannot remove a criminal conspiracy to violate so many laws, so many violations of oaths of office, from being dealt with by the Congress of the United States? At what point would the Democrats ever think of Impeachment if these are not cases where they should be considered? It is astonishing and frightening that no national political figure in federal position of power has sufficient moral fortitude to push this process through over a whole term of Congress.

In fact, is would seem that the criminal conspiracies, the rot, has reached into both the GOP and Dems so badly that only a complete change in leadership, top to bottom, would hold any hopes of righting the sinking ship of our once great Republican form of government. Given the growing control of our political “dialog” in this country by Punch and Judy impersonators, it seems that the ship may well sink. Already, one can smell the biggest rats gathering their treasure and preparing to flee…offshore tax shelters anyone?

And tear down that f*#/Xing LIBRARY!

1) An executive order cannot limit a President. There is no constitutional requirement for a President to issue a new executive order whenever he wishes to depart from the terms of a previous executive order. Rather than violate an executive order, the President has instead modified or waived it;

2) The President, exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, can determine whether an action is a lawful exercise of the President’s authority under Article II; and

3) The Department of Justice is bound by the President’s legal determinations.

Rule No. 1. El Presidente is head of Pre-Crime; he knows when he’s going to break the law, sometimes he hasn’t a clue, but gives himself an advance pardon. He tells no one. He creates secret laws and doesn’t write them down except when he wants to, often only to accuse someone else of breaking them.

Rule No. 2. El Presidente breaks the law, but arrogates to himself the role of judge, so that he can issue himself an advance pardon. He tells no one except when he wants to, often only when he wants to accuse the legislature of the ”prohibited act” of stepping on his executive turf. That is, when it tries to fulfill its own constitutional obligations to defend the Constitution and uphold the law.

Rule No. 3. El Presidente breaks the law with impunity. He is Prince John, not Richard the Lionhearted. He is a usurper who became king, whose reign is so loathed in fact and legend, by serf and noble, that no subsequent monarch has dared name himself John II. Only el Presidente may tell lawyers what the law is; it does not exist of its own right and cannot be used to question his divine right. Atavistic arguments discarded in blood and law for three hundred fifty years, like the right to torture.

That’s the new American Constitution, ratified by the Cheney Territory and the State of Bush, binding on an incompetent head of state and his dominatrix vice president. Not a mad house, a house of horrors.

thanks!

BTW, I’m not sure Pelosi’s fax # is right? I thought it was, since I’ve faxed before to that number and it supposedly went through, but who knows if it went to Pelosi’s office. I tried to fax it to your number the other day, and I think someone answered, although I had the sound down too low to hear very well, and wasn’t quick enough to pick up and ask. But I did also find a new number when I googled…that number is:202-225-8259. I found it listed in several places, but I don’t know anymore about whether it’s the right number than I do about whether your number is right, so I guess I’ll flip a coin or call her office and ask…I would have already but it’s long distance and I’m reluctant due to financial constraints. A nickel here, a dime there, pretty soon it starts to add up to a fair amount of money, so to speak. Thanks for all you do.

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once the google spider crawls the page (which should be soon if LHP links to it from here), you should be able to google on these keywords and the document title (the top three lines on the page, excluding the reference link) to find it via google.

the main idea was to let LHP have a link to use – so people reading her post here would know where to find it if they want to read the whole thing. in that way, you can kinda think about it as though it were attached to this page, and not so much to my site.

but, i’ll add some meta tags to it today so that it will show up in google searches. and when i get my act together (hah!), i’ll try to remember to make a resource list page of this kind of thing.

will that help address your concern? if you have any suggestions, please feel free to suggest away – and there is a contact form on the site you can use for that kind of thing too.

I haven’t had time to read the speech yet, although it looks just fine as far as formatting goes, etc. My question is, how do you get there from anywhere else if you don’t have the link available. Does it show up on anywhere in a table of contents? Does the page have a search function that would take you there if you entered Sheldon Whitehouse? If I went to Hugh’s list, for instance, and I knew that the speech was somewhere on the site, how would I find it? I poked around a bit, but I didn’t see it on any listing, if you know what I mean? Please clarify or do I need to clarify further what I mean?