Saturday, December 8, 2007

Whitehouse on the White House

Looks like Senator Whitehouse thinks banana republic is appropriate:

We are a nation of laws, not of men. This nation was founded in rejection of the royalist principles that "l'etat c'est moi" and "The King can do no wrong." Our Attorney General swears an oath to defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States; we are not some banana republic in which the officials all have to kowtow to the "supreme leader." Imagine a general counsel to a major U.S. corporation telling his board of directors, "in this company the counsel's office is bound by the CEO's legal determinations." The board ought to throw that lawyer out – it's malpractice, probably even unethical.

Heh. Indeed. At least one Democrat is making some noise.


(h/t Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker.com)

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