just b/c you're at the top of a slippery slope doesn't mean that you don't have a choice about coming down it.
I agree there - and I hope that Bush does not abuse this power. We elected him to protect us, because we trusted him. But the Constitution was written so that our nation could be "run by devils" - they weren't given the power in the first place, so we never had to "trust" anyone to do the right thing.
Bush might not be as forthright as Lincoln was about his reasons, but that doesn't mean that his decisions are necessarily less well thought out *just playing devil's advocate here.
I agree there too. Problem is, we won't hear about the abuses
If the people disapprove, they can vote a new regime in. this is america.
I agree with you there - and if it survives the supreme court and the new (presumably) dem controlled house, maybe it will be overturned by the next pres.
Olbermann made a good point tho- in two years, we'll have a new president in there. And there is nothing stopping the next guy (or girl) from abusing this power. Scary. Hilary could come into power and send Rush to Gitmo lol... as absolutely SILLY as this sounds, she'd be perfectly within her legal right to do so. So I cannot see why people from EITHER side of the aisle could blindly trumpet this.
I'm not warring with you tonight, AlG. Like many americans, I am just sad about this.