L'etat c'est George

There he goes again.

One can scarcely pick up the paper without reading about yet another instance of the President's lawlessness. He violates national and international law with a breathtaking frequnecy. And with seeming good faith. He really does seem to believe that his disregard for law is for the greater good.

This is what we get for electing a sub-norm on the grounds that we would like to have a beer with him.

His use of "signing statements" to limit the power of laws that he signs is a clever little circumvention of the Constitution. I see Karl Rove's fingerprints all over it. This neat trick saves the hassle of a veto--and the possibility that the veto would get overturned.

If this use of signing statements ever gets challenged, it's a good thing for Bush that Samuel "Unitary Executive Theory" Alito will have his back in the Supreme Court.

How come when it's a matter of seeing an implicit right to privacy in the Constitution, that's judicial activism, but when a Justice wants to dismantle the checks and balances that are the foundation of the Constitution, that's just good old fashioned judgifying?