It’s Mama Bush’s family that has the real money, so I don’t think he should hold his breath.

Frankly I think he wants to go make some money so he can afford his wife’s wardrobe. After 8 years of the restrictions on income that Florida politicians put up with, JEB needs some quality time with his checkbook and stock portfolio.

Do you remember back in the 90s when all you heard was Republicans screaming about how the rule of law applies to the President and that’s why Clinton was impeached for lying about adultery? I smelled a big stinking rat when aWol’s service record came to light and not one pundit who condemned Bill Clinton for dodging the draft said the same thing about aWol. I knew that aWol was an idiot back then, that’s why I voted for Gore. Now the NYTimes thinks that JEB! should run in 2012 or 2016.

Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, but he didn’t think it was constitutional when he did it and he was dealing with a rebellion. A lot of things were done during wars that had to be “undone” afterwards because they weren’t constitutional.

The notion that a president has unlimited power just because there’s a war going on would have been enough to cause most of our founders, even the most authoritarian among them, to have a stroke. Bush (actually probably Cheney; I attribute very little intellectual understanding of American constitutional theory to Bush), Gonzo, Yoo et al are making claims that are beyond astonishing. I can only hope that some GOP members of Congress have a strong enough sense of checks and balances that they eventually put up some active resistance to Bush’s claims to essentially a monarch’s power.

Have you noticed that Dubya is the third American president named George? Here we are, once again, fighting unreasonable claims of arbitrary authority by a George the Third…