Bad Bill Boogie

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog: "Apparently, Sen. Arlen Specter thinks we should all go along with whatever the President wants to do. Even if the President has been secretly breaking the law for years — since before 9/11/01 — we should just all clap our hands, make the illegality go away, and be cheerful about Specter’s bill that allows the President to keep on doing what he’s doing, retroactively okay the Bush Administration’s illegal conduct (as a former prosecutor, I’m sure you know how well THAT sits with me), and the hell with the Constitutional consequences and all those other pesky accountability and oversight responsibilities. After all, a strong unilateral executive is what the Framers intended right? What we want is a President who can just do as he pleases without any meaningful oversight by either the legislative or judicial branches, isn’t it? . . ."