DU comment on snoop hearings

PATRICK (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-06-06 11:04 AM
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71. I don't get how
they can argue without the deepest humiliation. First Bush shoves aside all their laws and consent and FISA, tooled especially for a presidency under a separate unequal law, and then they must hold him to account for not availing himself of the approved super powers? In essence they have to sound pathetic no matter what tack they take that avoids centering on abuse of power and contempt of Congress and subverting the law recklessly, needlessly and in perfect textbook example of the most insulting cartoonish fashion WHY there were regulations to begin with. Nixon was the textbook. Hitler was the monster. Bush is the flippant cartoon of an utterly degraded system of law.
Yet the solemn debate. Like those high society dinners when the three stooges disrupt it with pie throwing. Except it isn't funny but mean and the Congressional stuffed shirts just pretend the pie are not in their faces and keep posing.