"It's sincere, it's heartfelt, but after today, it's wrong."
it was very, very wrong BEFORE today as well...
i do not believe for one second it was either sincere or heartfelt... i believe it has been, from the very beginning (and by that i mean from the day bush took office), a naked power grab... 9/11 was a terrific excuse to pull out all the stops and pull out all the stops they have... moreover, in my heart of hearts, i don't think this scotus decision is going to call a halt to it... Submit To Propeller
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[T]he Supreme Court has struck at the core of [Bush's] presidency and dismissed the notion that the president alone can determine how to defend the country. In rejecting Bush's military tribunals for terrorism suspects, the high court ruled that even a wartime commander in chief must govern within constitutional confines significantly tighter than this president has believed appropriate.
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"There is a strain of legal reasoning in this administration that believes in a time of war the other two branches have a diminished role or no role," Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who has resisted the administration's philosophy, said in an interview. "It's sincere, it's heartfelt, but after today, it's wrong."
i do not believe for one second it was either sincere or heartfelt... i believe it has been, from the very beginning (and by that i mean from the day bush took office), a naked power grab... 9/11 was a terrific excuse to pull out all the stops and pull out all the stops they have... moreover, in my heart of hearts, i don't think this scotus decision is going to call a halt to it... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
6/29/2006
