The drieuxster's Happy Land

In 1993, I did a pretty shabby job of covering Bill Clinton's economic plan. It was, in sum, a very good plan--it worked wonders for the economy--but I focused on the mishaps.
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It pains me to watch normally reasonable colleagues overreacting to Obama's situation now--which is far less dire than Clinton's was. Some form of stimulus will pass. If it doesn't revive the economy, then more stimulus will be passed. Obama's maintaining the proper balance of reaching out to Republicans, making some compromises, but staying firm on the need for a bill that includes public works as well as tax cuts. A Republican Senator, a vocal opponent of the bill, told me the other day: "The guy has really impressed us. We may not vote for the bill, and he may have to learn that you have to give us more than he wants to give us to make us happy, but he's made a really strong start that will work to his benefit down the road."
[ cf Joe Klein, Light-Seer ]

Well, there it is.

The Evil Klintonesta are still a walking threat to the freedom of White Christian America because they are evil and hate freedom...

How can anyone feel safe KNOWING that the godless are out there corrupting the moral fibre...

You know, Evil Liberals, who think merely because the civilians made a mistake and their radical left wing Liberal Media is no longer reporting about the War President's Total Victorious Victories, that this should allow the Evil Liberals to, well, act like they were some sort of Ruling Class about to govern a large nation state...

I mean, that is the core failure of the Evil Klintonesta!!! That they feel that they have a 'right' to act like they are a Government, when only the Ones appointed By GOD can Govern...

Should Berkeley Law School have tenured John Yoo in the first place? Some law professors I know say that the shoddy quality of the argument in his OLC memos is powerful evidence that BLS should not have. I don't have expertise to evaluate whether their quality is so low as to make it impossible for him to be an effective teacher of future lawyers and researcher into the state of the law. But I do think that the question is open.

Does academic freedom protect you when you say what you do not believe? In a 2000 article, "The Imperial President Abroad" http://tinyurl.com/dl20090205, John Yoo writes that President Clinton exceeded the bounds of his powers as commander-in-chief: "accelerat[ing] disturbing trends in foreign policy that undermine democratic accountability and respect for the rule of law" by "render[ing] the War Powers Resolution a dead letter..."; using "troops... not to achieve total victory or to contain the spread of Soviet influence but in order to achieve more limited goals... whose long-term benefits for American security are unclear..."; and placing "American troops... under... non-American... commanders... threaten[ing] that basic principle of government accountability... [for] foreign officials have no obligation to pursue American policy, nor do they take an oath to uphold the Constitution..." In 2000 John Yoo "believed" that the president's commander-in-chief power was tightly circumscribed--that the president could not even lawfully order an American soldier to obey the orders of an allied commander. In 2003 John Yoo "believed" that the president's commander-in-chief power was plenary and unrestrained: that no matter what orders the president issued soldiers were absolutely and lawfully bound to obey them. It seems that John Yoo does not use "belief" in a normal way--that what John Yoo "believes" at any moment is simply what is convenient for his faction within the Republican Party.
[ cf Virtual Office Hours: John Yoo Edition ]

Well, there you have it.

Clear PERSECUTION OF WHITE CHRISTIAN AMERICANS by Godless Radical Left Wing Shrill and Hysterical BeZerkleyItes!!!

Clearly in a time when Congress has authorized a CIC to be military about stuff, that stuff should be military, and people will need to understand the importance of being military about stuff, irregardless of when congress has established that it is time to be military about stuff....

Or in short, those who opposed Clinton when he had the Majik Wand of Wonderment remain the folks who caused 9/11 by failing to support the CIC to support the troops, and keep america safe from the godless unbelievers who would think that america were divided!!!

Which is why we should still round up those unbelievers and burn them at the stake so that all true believers will know that true believing is what it is all about....

Granted, the alternative is that law is merely what the current ruling clique is willing to torture folks for....

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday it was "regrettable" that Kyrgyzstan was considering the closure of a U.S. air base there but that negotiations were continuing on the issue.
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Kyrgyzstan's parliament is set to vote next week on whether to shut a U.S. air base that is an important staging post for U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan.

"We will proceed in a very effective manner no matter what the outcome of the Kyrgyzstan government's deliberations might be," she said of U.S. operations in Afghanistan.
[ cf Clinton says Kyrgyz move on U.S. base "regrettable" ]

I think we should put aside for the moment the HORROR of American Troops fighting some failed Klintonesta Nation Building Project under the Jack Booted Repression of UN Oversight in Afghanistan.

Instead we should focus on whether we want to allow mere Parliament's to dictate where and how our troops bring the Freedom that can only come from the Homeland Security Investment Bubbling!!!!

Clearly if we allow ourselves to be pushed around in Kyrgyzstan, merely because some secularists in some so parliament say so, we leave america at risk of allowing any secularly elected government, including the civilian government here in the Good Old USofA thinking that they can pass laws and limit the Opportunities for Total Victory.....

And we would not want to allow Civilians to start thinking that they have some sort of special privileges.

Now do not get me wrong. I have nothing against Civilians, my father even married a couple. But I do not believe that they should think that they have some sort of special privileges!!!

The next thing you know they will want to vote and stuff....