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• Monday, February 5, 2007 05:57 AM

  only in the demented political lanscape of King George's Amerikkka.....

  ...could this English guy be called a moderate and a conservative.

  According to the article: "He describes himself as a firm supporter of Bush's efforts in the war on terror, which he sees as part of a bigger battle that the United States must win against violent Islamist extremism."

  so he supports the trashing of the Constitution and 800 years of legal tradition. He goes along with Bush's analysis "They hate us and attack us because they hate our freedom, so let's do away with our freedom."

  So warrantless spying on US citizens is OK, the legal certification of torture is OK, doing away with habeus corpus is OK. We just had a little lapse of judgement in IRaq. What, pray tell, is moderate about this?

  the article goes on:

  "he opposed cutting funds for the troops. "I don't want to create a bad precedent by trying to micromanage where the president may put 20,000 troops," English said. "Once our troops are in Iraq, it's ultimately the commander in chief who is responsible for implementation. I don't think there is any way of effectively sharing power."

  in other words, he doesn't believe in the Constitutionally comprised separation of powers. He doesn't want the responsibility of exercising the budget power of Congress. In what sense is this "conservative"?

  Only in the demented landscape of Bush's amerikkka

  —Jim Senter Read Jim Senter's other letters
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