An extraordinary diary about an even more extraordinary claim

is anyone but a precious few paying any attention at all to this kind of crap...?

devilstower, front-paged on daily kos...

When Tony Snow made the rounds of talk shows this week, some might have been surprised at his message.

Snow to CNN: "There's another principle, which is Congress doesn't have the legislative -- I mean oversight authority over the White House."

Snow to NBC: "Congress doesn't have any legitimate oversight and responsibilities to the White House."

Snow to NBC: "First, the White House is under no compulsion to do anything. The legislative branch doesn't have oversight."

Snow to ABC: "The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress in fact doesn't have oversight ability."

Just in case you missed it the first time, Snow repeated himself to make sure the public gets the message: the White House has declared itself, a law unto itself, beholding to no other authority. This goes quite a bit beyond the already massive expansions of "executive privilege" previously claimed by this administration.

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Though it may have passed as just another incidence of Snow being trotted forth to distribute the day's right wing talking points, what was said on Friday should not go without notice. This is the single more amazing declaration in an administration that has already produced more extraordinary claims than the fountain at Lourdes.

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The only question now is whether we will drive them back to the bank, or admit that we are only play-acting at democracy.

the bush administration is only spelling out the logical extension of what they have set out for themselves since day one - absolute, total, unfettered executive power, controlling de facto totalitarian state... we either confront this constitutional crisis or we risk losing our country...

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