Bush and the Beast

It occurs to me that the Bush administration’s “If the president does it, it’s legal” philosophy regarding the extent and exercise of executive power was, once upon a Golden Dawn, expressed another way: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”

You know, if you squint really hard, it’s not impossible to see a resemblance between Cheney and Crowley.

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7 Responses to “Bush and the Beast”

  1. Tom Walker Says:

    “Love is the Law, Love under Will”

    Sounds like some mad neo-fascist jesus chewin’ bdsm scene..

  2. Steve Gerber Says:

    Actually, that sounds more like William Moulton Marston. Or one of my ex-girlfriends.

  3. Brian Spence Says:

    I’m hoping that people (with their low approval ratings) are seeing that having Republicans run all three branches of government is a really bad idea. That Bush can do whatever he wants and congress rubber stamps it. But then again, you’d actually have to be paying attention to know that, and I’m sure most people polled aren’t paying attention.

    He’s been treasonous, there’s no doubt in my mind. Even if he’s technically allowed to declassify Plame’s identity, he did it with malicious intent and a willful disregard for her safety or their mission. At a glance, it looks like he could declassify that info, but I think there might be a line somewhere that he crossed, where he wouldn’t have been able to in that case. God, I hope that @ss goes to jail…

  4. Leviathan Says:

    Steve writes:

    the Bush administration’s “If the president does it, it’s legal” philosophy regarding the extent and exercise of executive power

    I don’t think that’s an accurate representation of their philosophy. I think it’s really:

    “If a Republican president does it, it’s legal”

  5. Steve Gerber Says:

    Brian: “Even if he’s technically allowed to declassify Plame’s identity”…

    He’s not, not even technically. That would be a direct violation of law.

    He claims, of course, that he *didn’t* declassify her name, just authorized the release of some material from a National Intelligence Estimate.

    Hooey, probably, but nobody’s in a position to prove otherwise at the moment.

  6. Bart Lidofsky Says:

    A) If you notice, Fitzgerald did not say that Bush released Plame’s identity, or that Libby even knew that she had been a covert agent. What Bush authorized had nothing to do with Valerie Plame.

    B) I’ve been looking lately at a rather fascinating theory that Aleister Crowley was Barbara Bush’s natural father, making him George Bush’s maternal grandfather.

  7. Steve Gerber Says:

    Bart: “What Bush authorized had nothing to do with Valerie Plame.”

    Not directly, no — as far as we know, anyway. I just don’t particularly feel like playing fair with the bastards anymore. We all saw where taking the high road got John Kerry. Let the fucking Republicans be calm and rational and objective this time. And let ’em apologize for themselves. They don’t need my help.