...We're flooding. 4 damned inches of rain today. Piss.

Now I have to go out (in the dark) (in the rain) and dig another fucking trench to draw the water off...

Shit piss fuck. Damn.

And the power's gonna' go out. It always does, 'cause people just Will Not top their trees.

damn...

How did you know I have a tatoo of Thumper???

You know, I'm always happy with someone behind me...

Maybe we should form the Catamite Party!

I'm not sure I think you can really be all that liberal. You seem quite anti-invertebrate...just what did those bi-valve mollusks doto you?

Mitch Mitchell died.

CatamiteSavingsBank, N.A. is floating the IPO on GlennGreenwaldCorp so how many shares shall we put you down for?

My secret hope is that I am dreaming there is even a chance that Lieberman could retain his chairmanship, and that I will wake to find he has been eaten by Dennis Kucinich.

And Pedinska - don't you find it very odd indeed that Joe was driving the get-away car when Brit and Bay stole my glue? He had that look he gets when he's been taking marijuana and is all hopped-up on speedballs. That or he was just pissed that the only one who would loan him a car was Rick Santorum, and it was the '67 Chevy Bel-Air.

Now I'll have to switch to huffing PAM.

See, I'd share, but I'm down to just this little one. Brit Hume and Bay Buchanan stole the rest of it...they seemed upset about something.

Shucks that's kind. I'll put it on my forehead.

...to quit sniffing glue.

of the Spotless Mind starring, Paul Broun and Sarah Palin.

Exactly.

...more fart poems this evening?

...slim pickens!

...appoint herself Senatorident of Mericastan, thus trumping the recent election of BO, and ride into DC triumphant on a gilded Moose. Which she will then kill and eat on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

...Baby Bratz Doll when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!

...want Gingrich to be.

...she should plow through?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Hoellentor.jpg

ewww...

Joe Lieberman in boxers=scary mental image=my exploding corpus callosum...

Article 1, Section 7, (presentment clause):

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.

Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.

Veto or sign. Then, it's right back to:

"take care that the laws be faithfully executed".

...further:

he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,

is really from where the authority for Executive Order is presumed.

...Glenn was right on about this.

"Nonetheless, we have strayed indescribably far from the system of Government we were supposed to have. That we trust a particular President and believe he'll do good things, achieve good outcomes, with excessive power is no reason to be happy with that state of affairs. As is often the case, Democratic Congressional leaders seem far more content to submit to power than to exercise it. But we shouldn't treat the framework created by the Constitution as optional or waivable when it seems there are good things to be gained by doing so."

We shouldn't treat the framework that way, the Senate shouldn't, and for goodness' sake neither should That One.

I was never happy about Bush's Executive Power Grabs, but I'll be even unhappier about such shenanigans if they continue in what promises to be a better administration. End and means.

BTW, those Executive Orders have been issued since 1789 based solely on these parts of the Constitution:

Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 1:

Clause 1: Executive power

The Executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:

Section 3: Presidential responsibilities

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;

he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper;

he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers;

he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and

shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.