Saturday, February 21, 2009
Dangerous Obama Foot-dragging
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OK, someone, somewhere needs to get the president's ear, and inform him that, no, reducing the excessive, obscene and illegal expansion of presidential powers created by George W. Bush at Dick Cheney's knee will not be construed by anyone other than former Bushies as "a limiting of presidential powers." It will be seen—and cheered—by all Americans as an effort finally to set things right.
This nation is looking to Barack Obama, former teacher of constitutional law at the University of Chicago, to return the natural and legal relationships among the three bodies of federal government to their rightful and proper levels.
Currently, he is not doing that.
A worry that many had during Bush's reign was how successors would deal with Bush's excessive expansions. Surely, no one (other than a Bushie) would WANT to be a King, but "Hey! if I have full kingly dictatorial powers, and no one is really saying that I HAVE to give them back, why don't I keep them for a while? I'll give 'em back, I promise, but let me take 'em for a spin, let me try 'em out for a while first."
No. It's just toooooooo tempting to simply leave them there. Human beings should never be allowed to just be human. This is why we have laws to cover every conceivable aspect of human life—because human beings cannot be trusted to not be swayed, seduced and corrupted fully by all that sways, seduces and fully corrupts the human spirit.
Obama, like any of the rest of us, must be governed by law, every bit as severely as Bush should have been.
Or our democracy is doomed forever.
posted by Gotham 5:57 PM
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