Wednesday, January 13: Bush administration Torture Czar John Yoo, who spends his days perfecting his water-boarding skills, will explain why he had EVERY RIGHT to add torture and other fabulous features to the American government at an event Wednesday at AEI. [AEI]
- Wednesday, January 13: Remember that time we made insane amounts of progress on climate change? It is really cold outside after all. CSIS is hosting a Post-Copenhagen discussion, where they will remind us of all the great things that failed to happen during those super important negotiations. [CSIS]
- Thursday, January 14: The Internet: means to raise money for campaigns and, added bonus, way to circumvent all those pesky little campaign finance laws! The Brookings Institution explains how the internet is the tool for campaigns to raise money. [Brookings Institution]
- Thursday, January 14: Without money, there is no future for America’s children. But we have no money for things our children need, making investing in the next generation very, very difficult. The Urban Institute to the rescue! They discuss how we can find some monies for the kiddies so that they can live happy, prosperous lives. [Urban Institute]
- Friday, January 15: What’s it like to grow up in the Palestinian territories? We imagine it’s like being on the The Real World DC, only with slightly fewer gay hook-ups. The Brookings Institution looks at youth in the Palestinian territories one year after the conflict in Gaza. [Brookings Institution]
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So John Yoo will be putting his Master’s actions in the context of the history of presidential power — something like “Well, Thomas Jefferson had no constitutional authority to enact the Louisiana Purchase, just the way Dubya had no constitutional authority to order detainess held indefinitely without charges and tortured.”
Except that Congress hadn’t passed a law prior to 1803 saying explicitly that you can’t purchase Louisiana. And signed a bunch of international treaties to that effect. Also Jefferson didn’t hide the Louisiana Purchase from Congress and then lie about it for years and years.
But aside from those trivial differences, they’re exactly the same thing — just two important (can we say Jeffersonian?) steps in the evolution of
absolute monarchy— uh, executive power.Ah…
John Yoo. The President’s consiglieri. See Greenwald.
Foreigner, Bush lawyer, Johnny Yoo, he could actually be a North Korean spy and saboteur of our precious freedoms. How do we tell unless he goes through a high-radiation scrotum scanner? His fear that scanner will show his hypogonadism be gosh-darn damned. America must be kept safe.
Yoo opposes the Chemical Weapons Ban treaty because he’s had no ill effects by his habitual use Black Flag as a spray deodorant. Even ignoring the growing accumulation of coach roach legs about his wee-wee, Yoo knows that how? The scratch-and-sniff test?
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