Usual republican cant:"We want strict constructionists on the bench!"

[No Exit]

Yeah, sure you do. You want the Constitution, unvarnished, not full of frou-frou, a Real Man's Constitution. You republicans are so no-nonsense. It makes me swoon, it really does. None of these prissy "activist judges" for you!

From Laura Rozen's War and Piece blog:

"Update: A reader writes in with a good point:

I'm surprised that no one, not even my conservative friends, has noted that President Bush's discovery of an implied right to conduct warrentless searches in Article II of the Constitution is completely inconsistent with his oft-repeated vow to only appoint strict constructionists to the federal bench. It is intellectually dishonest, to say the least, that President Bush believes that the judiciary is confined to the literal meaning of words when it interprets the Constitution, but the executive branch is allowed to divine implied rights when it interprets the same document. Indeed, there is no rational way to reconcile the two positions - other than as a naked grab for power by the executive branch."

http://www.warandpiece.com/

Well, *I* noticed! I remember thinking, when I first heard a few days ago that the prethident was now inventing laws, that that wasn't a very "strict constructionist" thing to do.

The repukes say they will fight tooth and nail against "activist judges" (never mind that this is actually a lie, since they don't mind it if the judges are "activist" in favor of THEIR pet causes); but the repukes have now given us an "ACTIVIST PRESIDENT."