WHAT HAVE WE BECOME
We’ve plummeted through Alice’s looking glass.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is defending President Bush’s anti-terrorism tactics in multiple court battles, said Friday that federal judges should not substitute their personal views for the president’s judgments in wartime.
[snip]
“Respectfully, when courts issue decisions that overturn long-standing traditions or policies without proper support in text or precedent, they cannot – and should not – be shielded from criticism,” Gonzales said. “A proper sense of judicial humility requires judges to keep in mind the institutional limitations of the judiciary and the duties expressly assigned by the Constitution to the more politically accountable branches.” Article
The entire Constitutional premise of keeping the federal judiciary as unattached as it does from politics is to have them act as a counterbalance to the “politically accountable branches.”
That anyone in the most rarefied tier of government, much less the freakin’ A.G. of the United States, has had no exposure to Civics 101 or to the barest digest of American history is scandalous.
That he spouts this tripe publicly brands him a fool.
The CIA tries to be MTV. ’nuff said.
Karen Hughes all but blames MTV for terorism. News flash Karen, the cultural and social things you dragged out were in place before the invasion of Iraq (and foreign views of America remained at much higher levels), foreign public support in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 was strengthened as well.
Pander to the arch-conservative and fundamentalist base just before the election much, Karen?
