{"id":206,"date":"2005-12-26T11:32:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T17:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=206"},"modified":"2005-12-26T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T21:48:15","slug":"defending-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/defending-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending the King"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arch-conservative Krauthammer speaks about Bush “circumventing” the law. Where does “circumvent” lie <\/p>\n

between enforcing and breaking the law? mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Charles Krauthammer<\/a> Impeachment nonsense<\/p>\n

Contrary to the <\/p>\n

administration, I also believe that as a matter of political prudence and comity with Congress, Bush should have tried to get the law <\/p>\n

changed rather than circumvent it. This was an error of political judgment. But that does not make it a crime. And only the most brazen <\/p>\n

and reckless partisan could pretend it is anything approaching a high crime and misdemeanor.<\/p>\n

Powell Speaks Out on Domestic Spy Program<\/a> By STEVEN R. WEISMAN<\/p>\n

Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said on Sunday … “My own judgment is that it didn’t seem to me, anyway, that it <\/p>\n

would have been that hard to go get the warrants<\/strong>,” Mr. Powell said. “And even in the case of an emergency, you go and do it. <\/p>\n

The law provides for that.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

But Mr. Powell added that “for reasons that the president has discussed and the <\/p>\n

attorney general has spoken to, they chose not to do it that way.”<\/p>\n

“I see absolutely nothing wrong with the president authorizing <\/p>\n

these kinds of actions,” he said. …<\/p>\n

Mr. Powell said he had not been told about the eavesdropping activity when he served as <\/p>\n

secretary of state. … Though Mr. Powell stopped short of criticizing Mr. Bush, his suggestion that there was “another way to handle it” <\/p>\n

was another example of his parting company on a critical issue with the president he served for four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arch-conservative Krauthammer speaks about Bush “circumventing” the law. Where does “circumvent” lie between enforcing and breaking the law? mjh Charles Krauthammer Impeachment nonsense Contrary to the administration, I also believe that as a matter of political prudence and comity with Congress, Bush should have tried to get the law changed rather than circumvent it. This … Continue reading Defending the King<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}