Today's quotes ... or Obama in a nutshell ...

So what we have is someone [Barack Obama, constitutional scholar] who likes the trappings of the imperial presidency that Dick Cheney grabbed for him, but who lacks the guts or clarity of principle to actually use them for good and accountability, even in cases of war crimes.

The worst of the worst that Obama is doing is continuing the Bush/Cheney rogue government. Instead of attempting to step the country back from an imperial presidency, Obama has furthered the cause setting us up for even worse down the line.

... the sole reason Dawn Johnsen is not leading the OLC is that Barack Obama and his coterie of advisors did not want Dawn Johnsen leading the OLC. The Obama Administration cravenly hung their own nominee out to dry, and the reason is almost certainly that she was not compatible with the Administration’s determination to maintain, if not expand, the Bush/Cheney positions on unbridled executive power, indefinite detention without due process as well as warrantless wiretapping and other Fourth Amendment invasions.

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... If past is prologue, we are on the cusp of shifting the ideological balance of the Supreme Court severely to the right – under a Democratic “liberal” President.