That Was in Another Country
Dr. X sends this through an anonymizer in Colomia (list of public proxy servers, rated by anonymity, is here):
"The U.S. is reported that torturing prisoners is no longer allowed. Nice to see the administration has decided to start following this portion of the constitution again. Still, it seems like the pecking order continues to be:
- Absolute Obedience Required - Presidential decree
- Law of the Land - Opinions favorable to the President written by obscure but sympathetic lawyers (if the link is obscure, the guy to the right of Coulter is Miguel Estrada).
- To be Taken Somewhat Seriously - Supreme Court Rulings
- To Be Disregarded per Executive Preference - Acts of Congress
- To Be Used as a Helpful Guide When Not Inconvenient Around Election Time - The U.S. Constitution
posted by Latouche at Large at 5:26 PM
4 Comments:
This is why I focus like a laser on the polls - with the Administration working to develop proto-dictatorial powers, even if their desire to effectively supplant the legal system under an argument of indefinite warfare is there, the ability to make it a functioning reality is severely limited in an unpopular environment.
By the way, Bush has crossed a certain threshold there: 65 percent disapprove to 31 percent approve in the latest Gallup (a normally conservatively running poll). Over 2 to 1 against. The only explanation is his increasingly unpopularity among political conservatives.
I hope the polls stop them in their tracks, because they've already created entirely too much of a functioning reality for my taste.
But the Administration is full of such ideological and/or religious zealots that I can't believe we've heard their last shot, or that they will pass peacefully from the scene.
Quite. To save this country, we will have to play Whack-a-Mole, for decades.
I was thinking nearer term. Simply put, can we be scared into not throwing the bums out? Or into replacing them with different bums of the same stripe?
I confess that these questions are rhetorical.
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