>> RoMunn wrote: >> This kind of half-baked, brain-dead thinking by Gonzalez is typical of >> lawyers and why I dropped out of law school. > >Quitter. j/k. > >Naw you need good lawyers to fight these kind of morons. What I don't >get is how Bush manages to surround himself with so many educated >doofuses; uneducated hillbillies, sure, but some of these guys have >pretty good resumes. > >Probably the largest collection of educated morons in the World. Look >at Tony Snowe ... he seems smart ... I wonder when he's just gonna >start laughing and say, "that's it! It was funny at first, but now >it's just sad! Come on Gregory, let's hit the bar, I quit!" > >Colin Powell finally did ...
Its not stupidity, its an ideology about the constitution. Cheyney is an out and out advocate of the imperial presidency - the concept that since Watergate the power of the president has been significantly diminished. And that not only should it be back to where it was before the fallout of Watergate, but considerably enhanced. The thinking here is almost of the Roman Empire vs the Roman Republic to give an example. Others in the administration take a neo-con ideological stance that the constitution is not all that important, and only applies in very select cases. Mainly in how the person is to interact with the government. If a right is not specifically mentioned in the constitution (or specifically mentioned in the positive - the people shall have XXX or the states shall have YYY), then that right does not exist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225822 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
