"Und Du Bist Mein SOFA"

Hey, something at the Daily Beast worth reading, we think, based on a (quick) scan. More interested in what Bush has done that's bad, wrong & un-constitutional than in what a pair of academics think Pres.-in-just-a-few-days Obama should do, however.

And it's been well established by precedent that nothing a president does is "illegal." So what actual difference will it make that

As of New Year’s Day, ongoing combat in Iraq is illegal under US law [?]

No difference at all, that's what. It's 5 January today. Haven't yet heard of arrest warrants being issued. Is there a judge out there who has the intestinal fortitude, desire to honor her/his constitutional oath, or whatever to issue an injunction? Thought not. Wimps. 

And something at The New York Times not worth the read, we're sure, but dealing w/ the same issues of the Senate & treaty approval. It's by two of the finest specimens of the AmeriKKKan legal system, & by "specimens" we do mean bug-like things that should be kept in jars (oxygen optional). The authors? Why, John R. Bolton & John NMI Yoo, who are not worried about Bush signing illegal shit w/ al-Maliki, but instead are scared that 

the new president and Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton, led by the legal academics in whose circles they have long traveled, contemplate binding down American power and interests in a dense web of treaties and international bureaucracies.

Yes, they typed it. And are ignorant or paranoid enough to believe it.