Daschle gives perspective This gets back to my earlier contention that BushCo really has no respect for the law. The Constitutional framework for our governance has no meaning to them. Their zealotry blinded them to the impending threat, warped the 9-11 attack into a completely needless war and now, they feel, places them above the Constitution as they scramble to cover their misdeeds.

Their very thin argument that there is a Constitutional basis for their actions has its feeble legs kicked out from under it with this piece by Daschle. War making powers were Constitutionally vested with Congress for the obvious reasons that Shrub embodies: Highhanded incompetents should not have their finger on any trigger without it passing the review of the people's representatives.

Our elected representatives spoke and BushCo chose to ignore it. And they used a program that couldn't make it through Congress because it was so onerous: This is Total Information Awareness reincarnated. John Poindextor is living proof that old fascists never die, they just skulk off to do their dirty work hidden behind the scenes. It is not by coincidence that this is not the first time that Poindextor has been involved with thwarting the will of Congress. Think of death squads in Central America and Ollie North.

I've looked at the talk of impeachment as more or less just political trappings: Not something likely to happen and not anything that really furthers the process of governance. However, my expressed desire that the Repug's be sent home seems to be gaining an urgency that makes waiting for the elections unacceptable. It would seem that things are just going to get worse as this administration thrashes about in the entanglements of incompetence.

Further perspective on this from Robert Parry here.  ¶ 12/24/2005 12:44:00 PM