The Ascension of King George

A federal judge has ordered an immediate halt to the President’s NSA spying program. TPM Muckraker has some excerpts from the judge’s decision :

“The Government appears to argue here that, pursuant to the penumbra of Constitutional language in Article II, and particularly because the President is designated Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, he has been granted the inherent power to violate not only the laws of the Congress but the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution, itself.

We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no power not created by the Constitution. So all “inherent power” must derive from that Constitution.”

Upon hearing this decision, President Bush, whose great-grandfather was a close adviser to President Hoover, grandfather was a Senator, and father was President, said “I’m sorry, were you trying to tell me something?”


posted by greg on August 17, 2006 @ 1:02 pm

4 comments »

  1. WE DON’T ELECT KINGS, but we do elect a hell of a lot of morons. Which bids the question—”Why am I STILL paying these people???”

    Comment by Mike Meyer — August 17, 2006 @ 6:09 pm

  2. Mike: You mean taxes? Well, for starters, tax evasion is a serious crime.

    Anyway, it’s good to hear that the Federal judges are ordering to stop the spying. Maybe impeachment might happen after all.

    Comment by Charles Brubaker — August 17, 2006 @ 9:54 pm

  3. Tax protesting is not a crime. Aparently the only difference between the two is the number of people involved. Personally, I would like to see all wages to Congress cut to one dollar per year. That way if you saw them eating a balogna sandwich you could legally ask them where they got the money to eat that well.

    Comment by Mike Meyer — August 18, 2006 @ 9:25 am

  4. Mike, you have a point. George works for us, and he’s doing a lousy job.

    IMPEACH!

    Comment by no one — August 19, 2006 @ 5:23 am

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