Like this Batman? Batman clubbin’
Or this Batman? Holy Sardine!
Or this Batman? Batman saving the free world

Holy batcrap!!! TV acting was so much better back then!

Jane [Hamsher] also asked Fein about Obama adviser Cass Sunstein’s recent statements that Bush officials should not be prosecuted for their illegal detention, interrogation and spying programs. To get a sense for why this matters, National Journal this morning listed Sunstein as one of a small handful of likely Supreme Court appointees in an Obama administration. But — similar to Fein’s point regarding Jay Rockefeller, Jane Harman and comrades — Sunstein has long been one of the most vocal enablers of Bush radicalism and lawlessness, having continuously offered himself up over the last seven years to play the legal version of the TNR role of “even-liberal-Cass-Sunstein-agrees-with-Bush.”

During my Democracy Now debate with him, Sunstein said: “I’d be honored but surprised if the military commissions cite some of my academic articles.” But as Talk Left’s Armando documented, Sunstein would be an ideal and highly likely “legal scholar” for the Bush administration to cite as part of its military tribunals, as Sunstein was an early and outspoken supporter of the theory that Bush had the authority to order military commissions (a theory which the Supreme Court rejected in Hamdan). Identically, while Sunstein now pretends to disagree with Bush’s theory as to why he had the power to spy on Americans in violation of the law (Sunstein said on Democracy Now: “while I agree with Senator Feingold that the President’s position is wrong”), Sunstein defended those theories as “very reasonable” when he was on right-wing talk radio with Hugh Hewitt in late 2005 during the height of the NSA controversy.

It’s really hard to imagine a worse person on whom Obama could be relying as a legal adviser, let alone a potential Supreme Court nominee, and here is what Fein had to say about Sunstein’s view of things: [… video link to Jane’s interview of Bruce Fine at bloggingheads.tv…]

IMHO, Sunstein is much more dangerous than is John Yoo. Per his Wikipedia entry, he is the most highly cited legal scholar in the country. He has excellent “liberal credentials” and eloquently supports the beltway view of the world. I recommend viewing the “debate” between him and Glenn at Democracy Now.

Both have a long list of accomplishmets which are entirely fictional.

Both have rapid fans who spend most of their time in their parents’ basements.

Both respond to any situation with violence.

Both are fond of comic books.

Both are comfortable at a sixth grade reading level.

Both have an affinty for codpieces.

Both had troubled childhoods.

And, finally, desipte the best efforts of some very talented writers, both are entirely two dimensional.