White wash of the president

Pat Roberts position is that the prez is king so therefore his committee doesn't need to investigate whether Bush broke the law. "If the president does it, it's not against the law," as Nixon is known to have said. From the Washington Post.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts said Friday the Bush administration's domestic spying is within the president's inherent power under the Constitution, and he rejected criticism that Congress was kept in the dark about it.

The program is "legal, necessary and reasonable," the Kansas Republican wrote in a 19-page letter, taking a particularly expansive view of the president's authority for the warrantless surveillance.

"Congress, by statute, cannot extinguish a core constitutional authority of the president," Roberts wrote.

Might as well just do away with Congress. What use are they? Let the President do it all. Get rid of these silly elections -- they just slow the prez down.

What I don't understand at all is why so many in Congress aren't standing up for their own rights as members of Congress. Is it because they all hope to become prez someday? Think again guys. If you give all powers to the prez, you'll have him as prez forever.

I do think I understand why Cheney is so bent on this. It's because he's the axis of the axis of evil.

With Congress preparing to plunge into a hearing focused exclusively on the warrantless wiretapping, Vice President Dick Cheney said exposing the effort has done "enormous damage to our national security." The New York Times revealed the program's existence in December.

"It, obviously, reveals techniques and sources and methods that are important to try to protect," Cheney said. "It gives information to our enemies about how we go about collecting intelligence against them. It also raises questions in the minds of other intelligence services about whether or not they can work with the United States intelligence service, with our CIA, for example, if we can't keep a secret."