Rule of Law is so pre-9/11.

If we don't become a monster, how can we defeat a monster?

Not that referring anything to this DOJ would matter anyway.

Not that this was the point of your post, but Bush ain't retiring to Crawford. I'll be surprised if he ever sets foot on that "ranch" again after January.

So just what function does the Intelligence Oversight Board now perform? To exclusively let the President know that illegal spying is taking place? Very effective, I'm sure.

Kevin -- you keep forgetting. Bush isn't going back to Crawford; he's retiring to Paraguay to escape trial as a war criminal. Just like many Nazis did and escaped extradition after WWII.

I accept your apology.

O.K. This is off-topic, but it's 1 p.m. central time and it's been a bad week. Where's Domino and Inkblot?

What gloria said. We need cats.

Even after 7+ years I'm still unsure -- Is W Cheney's errand boy in issuing this order, or what? Cheney wants to go all 'Unitary Executive' for the benefit of Hillarack and hir successors.

W always seemed more like the "My way or the highway" kind of guy, concerned only about America after 1/20/09 only regarding his legacy (to be determined about 250 years out, it seems), and the reduced tax and regulatory burdens for his true constituents.

Is there any evidence that W cares that much about the non-W stuff of Presidenting?

He can't sit back and let the nattering nabobs of negativism destroy his legacy.

Fortunately, this is just an Executive Order, and can be undone by another Executive Order in 312 days.

I'm only worried about Bush doing stuff that the next President can't undo by fiat. Judicial appointments, telecom immunity, regulatory agency appointments whose term doesn't expire with the change of Administration, destruction of records, stuff like that.

"Fortunately, this is just an Executive Order, and can be undone by another Executive Order in 312 days." (low-tech cyclist)

My countdown clock says 311 days. Is it being overoptimistic? Or did a surrender in Iraq-liberal reprogram it?

What shortstop said:

Not that this was the point of your post, but Bush ain't retiring to Crawford. I'll be surprised if he ever sets foot on that "ranch" again after January.

before Bush retires to Crawford

I predict the prop ranch will be sold within 24 hours of his retirement.

The Constitution is just a go--am piece of paper!

Hail to the chief Executive Intelligencer.

The economic downward spiral is Bush's legacy.

How on earth do we dig ourselves out?

The dollar seems to be blackholing.

Amen to dis-intelligencing our branches of government.

I'm sure the Dems will love the new freedom to wiretap Repugs - with all new Repug anti-laws.

Retire to Crawford? Or Paraguay?

Oops. I see shortstop and wileycat beat me to it. Damn you both! :-D

Pickles Bush is already on record as saying that she won't retire to the ranch... so says the Washington Times Inside the Beltway.

All part of the final year cleanup before Bush retires to Crawford, I suppose.

And it can't happen soon enough. What a relief it will be to never again be subjected to the smirks and posturing of that overpriviledged egomaniac.

Even after 7+ years I'm still unsure -- Is W Cheney's errand boy in issuing this order, or what? Cheney wants to go all 'Unitary Executive' for the benefit of Hillarack and hir successors.

The answer to your question will have to wait until the damage done by Bush/Cheney - Cheney/Bush has collapsed the USA, broken it up into smaller countries, and economic development and social development reaches a point at which there can be historians and archaeologists studying the ruins of the former USA to make a determination.

It's coming. Count on it.

Hear, hear. Is he just trying to further reduce the odds of impeachment?

This certainly is of a piece with making it a top priority to try to shut down surveillance suits by giving retroactive amnesty to telcos.

The OIB did a great job in deleting terabytes of data from AD.

Cheney/Bush has collapsed the USA, broken it up into smaller countries" Posted by: Praedor Atrebates on March 14, 2008 at 4:18 PM

Ohhhhhh, that explains the resurgence of The South Will Rise Again.

The south wont rise again because its full of northerners escaping the rust belt they created.

With this administration, it's been the Intelligence Overboard Sight.

Is this site the only commentary-related entity in the US that isn't addressing Pastor Wright's pulpit exclamations? You marginalize yourselves when you ignore the obvious. On the other hand--big surprise.

Worst. President. Ever.

Billy Bob:

Why does Barack Obama have to answer for what his pastor says? How retarded is that? What's next, having to answer for what your barber or the guy who shines your shoes says? You conservatives are so pathetic.

If you do have to answer for your spiritual adviser says, then when is John McCain going to apologize for what this creep Rod Parsley says ? He is McCain’s “spiritual adviser” and he is advocating the mass murder of Muslims! When is McCain going to apologize for this scumbag’s hate speech? Huh?

It's not a ranch. It's a ranchette.

Why does Barack Obama have to answer for what his pastor says?

Posted by: The Conservative Deflator

It could be because BHO wrote book and made speeches crediting this guy as being his spiritual mentor and inspiration. When BHO sat in the pew for the last twenty years. It would be nice to know which part of Wright's racist spewings he listened to and never denounced until called on it.

BHO has gotten a pass on most of this stuff and you lefties whine when some body finally calls him on it. I love it!

Fat White Guy at 11:39 AM: "BHO has gotten a pass on most of this stuff and you lefties whine when some body finally calls him on it. I love it!"

Who the hell is BHO, dear heart? And which "lefties" were "whining" in this thread and when, specifically? And what does this have to do with Bush Boy's erasing accountability for himself and all his criminal friends? What was the title and body of the original post again? Oh, yeah: Bush does some rear guard grunt duty in order to scorch his and his pal's many, odiferous trails. Oh, and I'll tell you what else, sweetums, when you're a black man in a massively racist society, then and only then can you spew about "racist" language. But, really, you're just too cute to take seriously. Seriously!

Who the hell is BHO, dear heart? And which "lefties" were "whining" in this thread and when, specifically?

Posted by: Conrad's Ghost

If you actually read my post you would have seen that it was Conservative Deflater. Also for those slow on the uptake BHO is Barack Hussien Obama. Also,if your were paying attention I was responding to a specific post.

Sweetums there is a differnce between spewing about racist comments and actually spewing racist drivel which is what Wright has done. So pay attention. Get a grip on life. Blacks are just as racist as any other group. Being a minority does not give you a free pass to be a racist except in liberal lefty world or some other alternate universe.

"I was pleased to have the endorsement of pastor John Hagee yesterday."