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January 19, 2006

A Conservative response to a call for accountability...

"What I can't stomach is Gore's partisan point-scoring."
Rob Port writing at Wizbang on Gore's recent comments on the NSA Domestic Spying Scandal....

Would it be okay for me to call BULLSHIT about now? Partisan Point Scoring? And No one, including Rob... does that on the Right... right? Since when is it Partisan Point Scoring to simply agree with the majority of Legal Scholars, including a member of the Secret Court who approves NSA snooping and quit as a form of protest... Since when, except in Conservative Hack fantasy land, is it Partisan Point Scoring to demand accountability of our elected officials?

Oh yeah, I forgot, questioning anything "The King" does is Partisan Point Scoring.... Long Live the King!

The tide may be turning though... We can only hope. I have asked repeatedly of my conservative friends, including Boyd, who is rational most of the time... Where do they FEEL a Wartime President's power should end. No one has given me an answer. Perhaps it is time for that answer.... Perhaps it is time we all took a look at the issue of Presidential Power, or more importantly, the balance of power...

Posted by David A at January 19, 2006 09:52 AM
Filed Under Hypocrisy | 196 Words

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Does Bush count as a "wartime president" if he starts a bullshit war against a nation that served no threat to the United States?

Posted by: tas at January 20, 2006 06:48 AM

That is a good question. Constitutionaly yeah, but in the hearts of many, he is GI Joe with the Kung Fu Grip, playing war because he was too scared to actually go fight.

Posted by: David Anderson at January 20, 2006 10:03 AM

My whole problem with applying special powers to a supposed war time president is the fact that, this being the case, this means that any president can just start a war to gain more powers.

Back in the day -- back before I was born -- going to war meant that there was a dire threat to the safety and security of this nation. Presidents like Johnson, Reagan, and Bush have done much to trash this precident. If a president is to have war time powers, it should be because this nation is threatened... And not because a president just goes and starts a war for the hell of it.

Bush doesn't deserve wartime powers. He deserves impeachment and censure.

Posted by: tas at January 20, 2006 03:30 PM

Forgot to mention prison. Impeachment, censure, then off to federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary.

Posted by: tas at January 20, 2006 03:32 PM