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November 18, 2008

While the Blogosphere Rends Their Garments Over Lieberman

by AltHippo @ 3:49 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

Yes, Joe’s a shmuck. He’ll get his eventually. Did he exercise poor judgment? Does the Pope excercise Catholicism?

We’ve got other fish to fry that are closer to basic premises of our experiment or democracy.

First, this story about an executive order that in theory could amount to severely limiting contraception or abortion. If you live in Small Town, USA, where the fetus is king, then it may be that everyone refuses to provide either contraception or abortion. Our founding fathers, who hated unlimited executive power, would object that the Executive branch was not created to work around the Legislative and Judicial branches on issues that it disagrees with. Yes, the Bushies are hacks. And crazy as loons. But, they still need to act within the framework of our democratic experiment.

Second, this story about prospective prosecutions for the enablers of torture within the Bush presidency. One of the most intelligent pieces I’ve read recently, btw. As Scott Horton points out, the discussion of prosecutions is weird, because there hasn’t been a formal investigation yet. The only conceivable way I could see Obama granting clemency on this and other abuses by Bush Justice is if there is a truth and reconciliation committee modelled after that of South Africa’s.

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