If George Can't Torture, The Terrorists ... blah, blah, blah

Damn activist judges! What's the world coming to when the U.S. government (The Greatest!) can't grab people off the street, detain them indefinitely, and torture them at will?

Well, whatever it's coming to, it's there and Congress-critters aren't happy. According to an AP story today, members of Congress are disturbed by the recent Supreme Court decision that said the law does too apply to U.S. presidents. It seems that some members of Congress feel that, if the Supreme Court won't let little Georgie play king, then they'll just go ahead and annoint him themselves.

This is not unexected, but it's disturbing anyway, partly because I just can't understand why anyone in Congress is still rushing to give Bush anything and everything he wants. Don't they realize that the only ride his coattails offer is a ride straight out of office? Can't they see that the man is deeply, irrecoverably disliked by the vast majority of Americans? And the polls showing that Bush is falling, falling, falling, unlike some earlier polls, are based on people's assessment of his policies and performance, not how well he swaggers around his stage-set ranch, nor how great it would be to have a beer with him. People are more and more becoming aware of just how gawdawful a president Bush really is.

I would wish a dire fate on any member of Congress who votes to give Bush the power to ignore the law when and where he wants, but I suspect, by continuing to support a president who has lost the support of the people, they will have set themselves up for the appropriate punishment anyway.