WTF Is It Now?!?

I had frost on my windshield this morning.

I'm in my cube at work, eating a bag of microwave popcorn. The pregnant sow in the adjoining cube started shrieking that the smell was making her sick...I don't think she took it well when I told her to try to stop breathing.





Emperor Snippy's Power Grab

Napoleon Bonehead says the powers of the presidency have eroded over the past 30 years and he is moving to reclaim the lost prerogatives of the nation's highest office. Like a schoolyard bully, he has drawn a distinct line that he has suggested no one dare cross.

Critics counter that the administration's effort is nothing more than a thinly veiled power grab and that the office of the president is more potent now than at any time in recent memory. As par for the course, though, most are doing it quietly. Then there's this guy, who's obviously a traitor:

Bruce Fein, a former Justice Department official who worked in several republican administrations, said the United States "has never had a more imperial presidency, at least since Roosevelt during his conduct of World War II."

"What the 'president' is claiming is legally and historically absurd and politically stupid," Fein said.

Fein added that while it's appropriate to cite national security at times, it's ridiculous to claim that anyone will be inhibited by his or her communications with the president if the information is made public.

"He (Bush) hasn't pointed to a single case," Fein said. "I've been around this town a long time, almost 30 years, and I've never encountered one individual who told me he's not going to the Oval Office unless he's promised confidentiality. It's the biggest hoax in the world. Why he's making up all this stuff is utterly and completely baffling."
- - via e-mail from BuzzFlash