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And, yes, I DO take it personally: Day #3 that the WaPo smells the coffee, kinda sorta
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Friday, May 18, 2007

Day #3 that the WaPo smells the coffee, kinda sorta

i do believe a new term has entered the lexicon...

WEDNESDAY NIGHT AMBUSH

day 1, the wapo is simply SHOCKED about comey's testimony...

day 2, they're calling láffaire gonzo a cover-up...

and, now, day 3, they are excoriating bush for trying to hide behind "the national security curtain"...

It doesn't much matter whether President Bush was the one who phoned Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's hospital room before the Wednesday Night Ambush in 2004. It matters enormously, however, whether the president was willing to have his White House aides try to strong-arm the gravely ill attorney general into overruling the Justice Department's legal views. It matters enormously whether the president, once that mission failed, was willing nonetheless to proceed with a program whose legality had been called into question by the Justice Department. That is why Mr. Bush's response to questions about the program yesterday was so inadequate.

there's one statement in the op-ed, however, that is profoundly disturbing...
Under the Constitution, the president has the final authority in the executive branch to say what the law is. But as a matter of presidential practice, this is breathtaking.

is it just me, or is that an endorsement of the bogus unitary executive, signing statement scam, wartime powers of the commander in chief under article II of the constitution bullshit that bush has been slinging at us for years...?

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