Crashing the Gates of Justice (tin foil hat edition)

   It doesn't take a crystal ball for this picture to become any clearer.  In the White House (signing statements by Bush) and both chambers of Congress (Frist and Hastert as leaders) the rule of law seems to be dead. (See the SCOTUS ruling on Hamden v Rumsfeld and John Dean's latest FindLaw piece about what Graham and Kyl were up to with the WH to get that one dismissed and got caught in the act) Now a court is going to hear arguments about why the government (Justice Dept. same one who used the Graham Kyl fraud in the Hamdan case) should be dismissed.  This is regarding the Deficit Reduction Act that Bush signed into law knowing the congress didn't vote for the same version as the senate. (Cheney was a tie breaker in the senate).

More on the flip

http://www.nytimes.com/...

The New York Times has an opinion piece about this case and the very fundamental elements of how a bill becomes law.  Clearly in this case, those steps were not followed and in fact Hastert and Frist swept it all under the rug for GWB.  We know that GWB believes himself above the law, so he'll sign anything he wants to become law.  Now, this case challenges the cuts in student loans, medicare and medicaid that are a result of this travesty getting sent to Bush's desk to be signed in the first place.  It's more of the same sham tactics that Graham and Kyl used when they submitted the bogus amicus brief to the SCOTUS in Hamdan v Rumsfeld.  It was cooked and so was this bill getting to Bush to sign.  BTW, the lawyer for Graham and Kylwho prepared the amicus brief for them for the SCOTUS (and the justice department used it to support trying to get Hamdan dismissed) works for James Baker's law firm.  The same James Baker who gets called in everytime Bush gets into trouble at all times in his adult life by Poppy.  

Seems like we really need to be discussing this entire topic.  Put on your tin foil hats and see the pattern that is emerging here.  Bush isn't the only one who thinks he's above the law. All the Republicans seem to think they can be. Nixon didn't have this much imagination in his grabs for power.