Reply #5: That's John Yoo's argument, if I'm not mistaken. [View All]

[Marr]

That the president can 'torture children' if he deems it in the defense of the country.

How these people can argue that government is the problem, and at the same time say the president is essentially a monarch... it's just beyond me. At least some of the old school conservatives were consistent in their "less government" rhetoric.

I know how this whole thing could be remedied in 10 minutes, however. If we ever had a president who decided that 'defending America' meant breaking up conglomerates, or imprisoning members of the kleptocracy-- people like Cheney-- you'd see the whole "unitarian executive" ideal deconstructed and mangled on television and the newspapers around the clock.