[BigV]

In addition to your well founded objections, Chewbaccus and Flint, there is the implied lack of confidence in our system as it exists today.

I don't know if either of you are a parent, but you've certainly been a child at some point. Do you remember being confronted with the reasoning "Because I'm the <strike>decider</strike> daddy, that's why!" in response to your questions as to why you couldn't do something? As a very generous, almost BEST-CASE evaluation of this parenting strategy, this is weak. It shows laziness, ineptitude, surrender and/or ignorance, or worse. It is the justification of (next to) last resort. The next step is just smacking the kid.

I am no kid, yet Bush arrogates to himself the authority and attitude of a weak parent. There may be those adult citizens among us who crave this kind of paternalistic governance--"Save me daddy!"--but I am not among them. Count me out! I find it highly insulting, to me as a citizen and to my country. I don't like his reasoning and I damn sure don't want to be smacked next.

If you can't get the job done with the tools at hand, we have a well established, properly functioning method for making new tools. Wholesale edits of our Constitution with the Executive Order pen is not one of them. He doesn't cotton to Congress's "running this war", but he blithely writes new laws to suit himself.

Chewbaccus: You've clearly been here a long time, so I don't mean to lecture you. Do not confuse his loquacious sesquipedalian logorrhea for mere coherence. But I don't lightly pin the label "fanboy" on UG. With apologies to fanboys the world over, I would pin it on him with a sledgehammer.