Quote of the day, from Matt Yglesias:
the same conservatives who think all this is no big deal seem to regard the EPA as an intolerable sign of creeping totalitarianism.
He’s speaking, of course, of the executive usurpation of power in its liberal reading of war powers legislation. As Mark Shields said last night, with not too much hyperbole, "Under Gonzales’s definition there is no need for the Patriot Act because the president can do anything he wants, I mean basically, so I don’t even know why they are upset about the Congress not passing it and given the supine Congress — they probably wouldn’t object that strenuously."
See also Elias at Chimes at Midnight, who invokes Advise and Consent to understand our current situation. No, I’ve not read the book, just seen the movie, but maybe I have discovered my Christmas break reading.
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