Comments on: “Nevermind that unitary executive thing.” http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2009/01/nixing-unitary-executive/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bubby http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2009/01/nixing-unitary-executive/#comment-22044 Bubby Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:11:17 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/?p=6372#comment-22044 Why yes, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz01hN9l-BM&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/6/155633/2217/81/672150&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">it was John Yoo who said that it is legal for the President to order torture.</a> Why yes, it was John Yoo who said that it is legal for the President to order torture.

]]> By: Bubby http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2009/01/nixing-unitary-executive/#comment-22038 Bubby Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:00:38 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/?p=6372#comment-22038 Wasn't Yoo the hack that wrote the legal justification for torture? He needs to go down. Hard. Wasn't Bolton the mustache who made a mess of our international relations at the UN? Who cares what he thinks? He's irrelevant. Wasn’t Yoo the hack that wrote the legal justification for torture? He needs to go down. Hard. Wasn’t Bolton the mustache who made a mess of our international relations at the UN? Who cares what he thinks? He’s irrelevant.

]]> By: MB http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2009/01/nixing-unitary-executive/#comment-22036 MB Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:34:36 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/?p=6372#comment-22036 From Hunter's latest over at dKos, treating the piece with the respect it deserves: <blockquote> I am absolutely certain that seeing the foreign policy stylings of Bolton and Yoo objecting to unencumbered presidential power is goddamn comedy gold of the highest caliber, but therein lies the problem. It has passed the event horizon: there is no accurate way to describe its level of self-satire. Would it be like a vampire owning a blood bank, or a chicken owning a poultry processing plant? Is it larger than a breadbox? If you light a match to it, does it smell like a cinnamon-sprinkled tire fire? </blockquote> From Hunter’s latest over at dKos, treating the piece with the respect it deserves:

I am absolutely certain that seeing the foreign policy stylings of Bolton and Yoo objecting to unencumbered presidential power is goddamn comedy gold of the highest caliber, but therein lies the problem. It has passed the event horizon: there is no accurate way to describe its level of self-satire. Would it be like a vampire owning a blood bank, or a chicken owning a poultry processing plant? Is it larger than a breadbox? If you light a match to it, does it smell like a cinnamon-sprinkled tire fire?

]]> By: Jeff Uphoff http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2009/01/nixing-unitary-executive/#comment-22033 Jeff Uphoff Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:14:32 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/?p=6372#comment-22033 Will, I'd be very surprised to see that defense of perogative under Obama be anywhere close to as efficient and uniform as it was under Bush. Ever seen a mass of Democrats try to march in ranks up and down the square for any length of time? Gets to looking like a Monty Python skit pretty quickly sometimes. Mind you, I consider that a good thing (despite my military-academy background) :)~ (Cadence: "Left left left left...what the hell comes after left?") Will, I’d be very surprised to see that defense of perogative under Obama be anywhere close to as efficient and uniform as it was under Bush.

Ever seen a mass of Democrats try to march in ranks up and down the square for any length of time? Gets to looking like a Monty Python skit pretty quickly sometimes. Mind you, I consider that a good thing (despite my military-academy background) :)~

(Cadence: “Left left left left…what the hell comes after left?”)

]]> By: Will http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2009/01/nixing-unitary-executive/#comment-22029 Will Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:05:42 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/?p=6372#comment-22029 Of course Obama and his party and people will defend the perogatives of the Pres. now that they have it. Of course Obama and his party and people will defend the perogatives of the Pres. now that they have it.

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