Tuesday, June 24, 2003

'Tis good to be the King!
The blogosphere is agog over a statement by Dick Gephardt, as reported by Misha here - and be sure not to miss the 106 and still counting comments. I haven't read all the comments - and won't - so I don't know if anyone has mentioned a possible implication of D.G.'s policy that a sitting president should be able, by executive order, to counteract anything "bad" that the Supreme Court might do. Say, didn't the Supreme Court do something all right-thinking liberals considered VERY BAD in December 2000 when they ruled that the Florida recount had to stop, therefore handing the presidency to a real grown-up man for the first time in eight years? I believe the slogan the Left use is "Seelected, not Eelected!" or something just as euphonious. So what if Gephardt had been president, which could have been possible, since he's been running for president since at least 1984 to my personal knowledge, since that's when I shook hands with him on the New Hampshire campaign trail? How would he have neutralized the evil of the evil fascist right-wing court? Of course! He could have just signed an executive order designating Gore as president! Then when Gore's eight years were up, he could just designate Hillary, if he were still alive which would be unlikely. No more need for silly elections or campaigns - they're so environmentally wasteful and we do want to save the Earth, don't we? It's in the balance, you know. And, say, what's with that two term restriction, anyway? Gephardt could just do away with that with a "stroke of the pen, law of the land, cool!" And then there's that annoying Congress nonsense. Boy, will Dick be glad to get out of that place. What a sinkhole of depravity and Republicans. It's executive order time! And, say, isn't that Monica walking across the street? Well, she does know the way over here to the White House and no one can disobey an executive order....