Executive Power

Sully's happy about a bill to scale back executive power, albeit correctly pointing out the bullshit re: the GOP didn't seem to mind it when Bush had it.

Of course, all of this is silly:

To even dream that ANY president would roll back executive power is a pretty far-fetched dream of naivete. It's like breaking up with your high school girlfriend and thinking that with her next boyfriend she'll start back at necking and light petting. Sorry Skippy, but she picks up right where she left off - toothy blowjobs and ball-licking.

Being "outraged!" about executive power basically means "I'm a member of the opposition party to the president."  If it's your guy in the White House, you wonder what all the fuss about signing statements is.  It's the same way we love the filibuster when we're the minority, but are frustrated! by it when we're the majority.  The bigger picture of this kind of theme to me is that all of this allows us to be easily led into being okay with something like torture.  As long as we're the ones doing the torturing, we cannot conceive it could come back to be used against us; if it did, suddenly we'd find it out of bounds, of course.