[billbears]

First, action outside and sometimes against the Constitution is only Constitutional when the Constitutional union itself is at risk; a concern for the public good is insufficient grounds for the executive to exercise discretionary power.

We are talking about AEI here...any non-praise of the 16th president is swept under the rug. Forget Milligan, the new (and old it seems) Republican mantra is to keep doing something until someone tells you to stop. Then feign ignorance as if you didn't really know it was wrong to do it.

[lentulusgracchus]

We are talking about AEI here...any non-praise of the 16th president is swept under the rug.

I guess that whatever Lincoln did, then, is fair for Bush to do. Why doesn't he invade a "blue" state or two and burn them down for supporting treasonable people like, oh, Hillary Clinton?

"All the laws but one," and all that.

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