I’m sure it’s just an oversight that they haven’t been just as worried and upset about signing statements, trashed congressional subpoenas, scrapped Bill of Rights liberties, and the absence of congressional war declarations.
Surely it's just a typesetting error that they don't tell us in their article that the Constitution does in fact also provide for treaty approval by both houses of Congress, and that this process has historically been used for such non-economic agreements as SALT and the recent nuclear pact with India.
No doubt it’s just an accident that they don’t mention how US-signed and ratified treaties – like, for example, the UN Charter, which prohibits war except in self-defense or by Security Council authorization – are described as “the supreme Law of the Land” in the Constitution.
They are quite right to note that what really matters is to protect the right of a super-minority of 34 senators to block international agreements that both houses of Congress and the president want to enact.
Oh, by the way. Did I mention that the only power Republicans retain anymore, after getting clobbered in two consecutive elections, is the blocking power of a minority in the Senate? No doubt another this is just another odd coincidence.
Or, alternatively, just the beginning of a whole series of remarkable conversions we’re going to see from those great enablers of Bush’s devastatingly destructive march to the sea. Government bailouts? Okay in 2008. Wasteful pork-barrel spending in 2009. Gigantic deficits? Couldn’t be helped under Bush. Outrageous under Obama. Stealing elections? Sorry, Sir Scalia would like to remind you that Bush v. Gore was “limited to the present circumstances” only.
If you like hypocrisy, you’re gonna love the coming months and years.
As for me, I’d like to get a whole bunch of those anti-regressive-induced, hypocrisy-produced, chronic nausea pills, please.
And I’m going to need lots of those little bags you find on the back of airline seats, too.
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