MARY LYON FROM THE LEFT: Bordering on the Ridiculous

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by Mary Lyon -- World News Trust

Gotta hand it to George W. Bush. He's great entertainment sometimes, and as much of a brain-teaser as Sudoku.

There he was, all furrow-browed and earnest-looking, dressed up and ready to teach us all how he was going to lead our wandering nation to the Promised Land of immigration reform. He sat there at his little president's desk, exhorting us to remember that "we're a nation of laws, and so we must enforce our laws." Lots of verbal acrobatics, jumping both sides of the fence, tip-toeing carefully along the tippy-top of it. I'm surprised he wasn't trying to balance a spinning ball on the tip of his finger, or show us a good cartwheel in the process. Since up is down and in is out and hot is cold with this fellow, here was just one more opportunity for gymnastics with semantics, but hardly one for the medal round. Why do I always come away from one of his televised addresses feeling like my brain's been packed with pretzels?

"We're a nation of laws, so we must enforce our laws." HUH? When did YOU ever care about what was lawful, George?

I find it utterly mindboggling that the very same guy who snickered about how "we may never find the source of the leak" of Valerie Plame's name, is now grandstanding about being a nation of laws. This is the same guy who just recently told us all those millions of phone calls his NSA has been mining and trolling through is "NOT mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans" (when that's exactly what it IS). This is the same guy who swore to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution that he now treats as little but an annoying piece of paper. This is the same guy who signs bills into law with "signing statements" that declare none of these laws actually apply to him. This is the guy who earlier assured us that his latter-day TIPS program applied exclusively to calls with one foot in this country and the other foot outside the country when we later learned it's actually every call WITHIN our own borders, involving every last one of us anyway, not just those of us talking to somebody suspicous overseas. Plus, it's been going on for several years running by now. This is the same guy who says no one's listening into anybody's phone calls without court approval when this whole bloomin' thing to begin with has been done without court approval.

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