It’s making the rounds more and more lately, but I first caught this quote in Playboy:

…when the president does it that means that it is not illegal…If the president, for example, approves something because of the national security, or in this case because of a threat to internal peace and order of significant magnitude, then the president’s decision in that instance is one that enables those who carry it out, to carry it out without violating a law.

That’s Richard Nixon defending his belief that the pesident and his ‘employees’ are above the law in any action they undertake in the name of national security. I always wondered why the White House media mouthpiece made such a big deal about Nixon and McCarthy being portrayed in a negative light. It makes sense now that Bush tweaked the Patriot Act before he reauthorized it.

When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act’s expanded police powers.

For those of you who don’t dabble in the liberal blogosphere, here’s a rundown of this week in the further decay of the free press.

Tuesday, March 21st — The Washington Post, in the interest of providing balance to left-leaning journalist Dan Froomkin’s White House Briefing blog, launches Red America, written by 24-year-old Ben Domenech. Domenech is a former writer for National Review Online, founder of Redstate.com, “the youngest political appointee of President George W. Bush”, and son of Doug Domenech, Bush’s liasion to the Department of the Interior.

Liberal blog outrage immediately focuses on Ben Domenech’s past writings, particularly that time he called Coretta Scott King a communist, and his assertion that the Supreme Court was “worse than the KKK.” He also called Michael Moore “Fatty Fat Fat Fat.”

In his defense, he did say Pat Robertson is a “Whacked Out Loon.”

Thursday, March 23 — Blue-chip Liberal blogs Eschaton and Daily Kos link evidence that college-Domenech plagiarized P.J. O’Rourke.

Over the next several hours, the bloggers uncover a flood of other examples, from college and National Review Online writings, of Domenech plagiarizing word for word from other sources, including the Washington Post.

Friday, March 24, 1:17 PM EST — The Post reports that Domenech has resigned

Yeah, yeah. I know it seems that all I can do is post political schtick all the time…

..but isn’t that much more entretaining than hearing about how great it is that my wife hasn’t run off on me after four years, post-ring-implantation, or that I ordered a cool new phone.