roachboy

fact is that there should be an interesting and potentially important series of consequences for the bushpolicies in question here---there should be an investigation into this, which would set off a series of legal battles over the legitimacy of john yoo's carl schmitt-like usage of a state of emergency to remove all boundaries to executive power and the bushpeople's---um---loose interpretation of this argument.

and if the administration looses, it should fall along with the doctrine of unlimited execustive power that it has ridden since 9/2001.

in the "debate" above all that is really happening is a rehearsal of basic political divisions without any real dialogue--the rightwingers cannot see any possibility of a problem, everyone else sees a problem, round and round.
it is a bit surprising to see the conservatives above already arrayed in a "defense" of total denial of any problem whatsoever--but no matter, this is the right we are talking about here and submissiveness to the dominant talking point of the moment is evidently a kind of marker of belonging to that curious little world. and the recycling of these same divisions is tedious. no-one ever moves when things reach this point. maybe this recurrent state of affairs is a type of penis function, marking of territory, walking purposefully about on it.....it's hard to know, really.

anyway, it would appear that the folk who run the ideological show on the right think that this problem can be managed at the public opinion level--but the problem is bigger than that: it is whether the administration acted illegally in claiming unlimited power for the executive branch (and thereby jettisoning any pretense to democratic accountability--like the carl schmitt precursor for this ove, a state of emergency cannot abide democracy because it is too slow and too messy--a dictator, capable of Decision is required--a "logic" which is essentially that of the national security state as a whole since ww2, and of the ever-submissive american right now---with dick cheney as the most attractive spokesmodel for it.)

i would like to see the legal fight happen.
of course i would hope that the defeat the bushpeople would suffer would be total....
but that is just my opinion about outcome and has nothing to do with the importance of the legal fight--which would function to reinscribe the balance of power between branches as the states enters a new and improved slide into that twilight world of fading empires.

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