Dictator-in-chief

Bushco is really just comming right out and saying it now. "You pass a law. I'll ignore it." And, Congress rolls over and plays dead.

A Justice Department official seemed to imply earlier this week, to the astonishment of some House Judiciary Committee members, that a bill aimed at reining in the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program would have little impact even if passed.

His testimony, combined with Bush’s assertion of executive authority under the Constitution, has led some ... to question whether the administration would follow a revised surveillance law.

Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies... "What is the point of legislating," she asked members at the hearing, if "the administration won’t follow the law even if it’s changed?"

Not only is he the decider in chief. He's the dictator in chief. (Or maybe Cheney is.)