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January 13, 2006

He lied. What are you going to do about it?

A new book by James Risen called State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration lays to rest any remaining doubts about whether the Bush administration deliberately deceived Congress and the American people about Iraqi WMD. What Risen reveals is more details about the Downing Street Memo.

So Bush lied. What are you gonna do about? What is anyone gonna do about it?

We know that Bush buys into the extreme Unitary Executive Theory, having cited it numerous times as giving him the leeway to interprete laws and constitutionally-binding Congressional mandates as he sees fit. Which is just another way of saying that the president is not bound by any laws save what is explicitely spelled out in the constitution. Indeed, taken to it's logical extreme, this theory would also have to hold that none of the amendments to the constitution are binding upon the executive branch.

We also know that Samuel Alito subscribes to this same vacuous, extremist theory which would have us believe that the Founders intended to create an executive branch that essentially has the power of a King.

Joe Gandelman (aka, The Moderate Voice) clearly doesn't buy into this absurd theory. But he's not going to be serving a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court either. Alito will.

Essentially what we've got if folks like Judge Alito and President Bush have their way is an imperial executive with almost unlimited power to do as he pleases.

Posted by Kevin at January 13, 2006 10:38 AM