Tuesday, May 02, 2006
You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me
President Bush declares today Law Day 2006.
This year's Law Day theme, "Liberty Under Law: Separate Branches, Balanced Powers," honors the wisdom of the separation of powers that the Framers of our Constitution established for the Federal Government. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention recognized the risks that accompany the concentration of power and devised a system in which the Federal Government's authorities are divided among three independent branches. James Madison highlighted the importance of our Constitution's separation of powers when he wrote, "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
Yes, because we all know how much Bush has worked to uphold the system of checks and balances.
Does... does he even realize what he's doing? Does he have the faintest idea, even off in the farthest part of the back of his mind, that he is violating the Constitution through his little signing statements?
Of course he does. That's what makes this whole thing all the more sick.
This year's Law Day theme, "Liberty Under Law: Separate Branches, Balanced Powers," honors the wisdom of the separation of powers that the Framers of our Constitution established for the Federal Government. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention recognized the risks that accompany the concentration of power and devised a system in which the Federal Government's authorities are divided among three independent branches. James Madison highlighted the importance of our Constitution's separation of powers when he wrote, "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
Yes, because we all know how much Bush has worked to uphold the system of checks and balances.
Does... does he even realize what he's doing? Does he have the faintest idea, even off in the farthest part of the back of his mind, that he is violating the Constitution through his little signing statements?
Of course he does. That's what makes this whole thing all the more sick.
