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May 17, 2006
With conservatives like President Bush
...who needs liberals? A recent White Paper by CATO is entitled, "Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush." "President Bush's constitutional vision is, in short, sharply at odds with the text, history, and structure of our Constitution, which authorizes a government of limited powers," it concludes. Bush's seems to understand federalism to mean:
- a federal government empowered to regulate core political speech -and restrict it greatly when it counts the most: in the days before a federal election;
- a president who cannot be restrained, through validly enacted statutes, from pursuing any tactic he believes to be effective in the war on terror;
- a president who has the inherent constitutional authority to designate American citizens suspected of terrorist activity as "enemy combatants," strip them of any constitutional protection, and lock them up without charges for the duration of the war on terror - in other words, perhaps forever; and
- a federal government with the power to supervise virtually every aspect of American life, from kindergarten, to marriage, to the grave.
Pick your poison.
(H/T: Gadsden Flag.)
Posted by bill at May 17, 2006 09:40 AM
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