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host · 12-19-2005, 11:50 AM

No need to even display the pretense of announcements of the suspension of the bill of rights, the rest of the provisions of the constitution, or the next session of congress. George W. Bush is now "the law".

Are you just going to sit back and watch as no articles of impeachment are drawn up in response to the coup d'etat of the executive branch?

It's finally over, folks. Constitutional, representative government, lost!

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http://www.statesman.com/news/conten...12/18bush.html
Bush: I approved domestic spying
Eavesdropping without warrants must continue, president says

By Ken Herman
WASHINGTON BUREAU
Sunday, December 18, 2005

........Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., said Saturday that it was absurd for Bush to claim that he had the authority to approve the NSA domestic wiretaps without judicial approval.

"If that's true, he doesn't need the Patriot Act, because he can just make it up as he goes along," Feingold said, echoing the sentiment of Senate leaders who said Friday that they would investigate the NSA program. "I tell you, he's President George Bush, not King George Bush. This is not the system of government we have and that we fought for."

He added: "The president does not get to pick and choose which laws he wants to follow."

Bush supporters fell in line behind the president. ..........

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http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/17/smn.03.html
Aired December 17, 2005 - 10:00 ET

...FEINGOLD: Well, they relate in this sense, is that there's a pattern here of the president refusing to listen to arguments about protecting innocent Americans. In the Patriot Act, we have a couple of provisions that make sure they can't go after innocent Americans' library records and medical records and business records.

Every single member of the Senate, including all of the Republicans, voted for those provisions. The president says no, he'd rather let the law expire than have those protections in there. Now that relates to the other point which is that he apparently feels even if he doesn't have authority from Congress that he can go ahead and do all this stuff anyway under some inherent power.

So what that really means, if you take his argument all the way, is he doesn't even need the USA Patriot Act because he thinks he has some kind of an inherent authority to make up the law himself. And I'll tell you something, this president and no other president is above the law and that's exactly what he was just telling us he was.

HARRIS: What am I missing here? It can't be as obvious and as blatant and as you paint it or I would imagine that this country might be in a bit more uproar......

Quote:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0051219-2.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 19, 2005
Press Conference of the President
The East Room

..QUESTION: Getting back to the domestic spying issue for a moment, according to FISA's own rec..ords, it's received nearly 19,000 requests for wiretaps or search warrants since 1979, rejected just five of them. It also operates in secret, so security shouldn't be a concern. And it can be applied retroactively. Given such a powerful tool of law enforcement is at your disposal, sir, why did you see fit to sidetrack that process?

BUSH: We used the process to monitor. But also, this is a different era, different war. It's a war where people are changing phone numbers and phone calls, and they're moving quick. And we've got to be able to detect and prevent. I keep saying that. But this is -- it requires quick action.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...120900549.html
.........One strike against the administration is the people who leave (Paul O'Neill, Richard Clarke) and then offer evidence of dishonesty of their former employer. Do some Bush loyalists, as an unnamed White House aide told journalist Ron Suskind, believe that reporters and others are members of the "reality-based community"? ("We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.") Or do we have to wait for more memoirs to find out?............

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http://www.hereinstead.com/Suskind-WithoutaDoubt.htm
........In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'' ............

So....what will it be....it seems that there isn't much time to decide? The house of representatives is about to adjourn for an extraordinary length of time....until January 31, 2006, to afford Tom Delay extra time to possibly get past his Texas criminal trial, in the hope that he can somehow be re-elected to his "leaderhip" post.

Do we wait 45 days...only to watch the new congress do nothing in the face of Bush's coup? I predict that we will! We've grown too soft and complacent to embrace the risks of taking the law back into our own hands, by any means necessary...the same way our president took it away from us......
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HARRIS: What am I missing here? It can't be as obvious and as blatant and as you paint it or I would imagine that this country might be in a bit more uproar......