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Wheat & Weeds - Reining In The Court

As is often the case when serious matters are at stake, the part of the story that hits the papers isn’t the most important or interesting. Here John Yoo argues that the military commission bill Bush signed recently was not a capitulation to the Supreme Court (as it was played both in the MSM and in talk radio/Conservative pundit land), but a smackdown of it. Yoo pithily explains the problem we face on all issues: whether liberal or conservative, our legislators don’t like to make tough calls, so they invite the courts to meddle everywhere.

So that’s what’s been bugging me about politics! Our legislators don’t like to make tough calls, so they leave it to the president to do all the work and invite the courts to meddle!

So I was just pondering, “This is where monarchs come in handy.” When they’re committed to a war, they’re committed to a war (just look at England and France (and England and France and England and France)). But then I was thinking, well, there were other wars that democracies managed to pay attention to for long enough to actually win the damned thing, like World War I and World War II. Ah but those were World Wars. Peer pressure. So I think the only wars a single country can (in a lead roll) execute without getting bored and frustrated and walking off in a huff are ones with monarchs with chips on their shoulders about little patches of territory. Like Normandy. And Aquitaine. But then there’s Cuba. So I’m probably just bitter.