Yoo Have to be Kidding
John Yoo is very upset about the abuse of executive power in the president making recess appointments when the Senate is not conducting business and refusing to consider any nominees for executive offices. And, yet, when it comes to hackery he has nothing on Glenn Reynolds.
If you haven’t yet, make sure to read Stephen Holmes’s oldie-but-goodie on Yoo.
Ooh, ooh!
I got this one.
Maybe if I crush his son’s testicles, I can change his mind?
Or, let the President. Yoo was fine with that before.
And if he doesn’t have a son – well, I know this MFer has balls, because of what he just wrote, so HIS will do just fine!
John Yoo – you wrote this?!?!?!?!
Yoo did?
WTF!
Once again, our Conservative friends prove that the art of fiction is dead, because if you tried to write the last 10+ years as a novel, your publisher would tell you people aren’t that stupid, or that crazy.
And that a person like Yoo wouldn’t do what he just did in the real world. It’s not consistent with his “character.”
Then, your publisher would tell your editor to stage an intervention, ’cause you’ve gotta be smoking crack and/or meth, while dropping acid, and washing down hash-brownies with absinthe and tequila dropped ‘boiler-maker’ style into glasses of beer.
R.I.P. Fiction.
Conservatives have drawn and quartered irony, put its head on a pike in the town square, buried it in a manure heap, and are now pissing on the grave.
Conservatives want to do that, but they’re congenitally incapable of recognizing irony. In a suitable act of irony, in their efforts to kill irony dead they killed a whole lot of freedom and capitalism instead.
Do you guys know where I can find a link to Yoo’s articles arguing against Bush’s recess appointments of John Bolton, et. al.? I can’t seem to find them.
To be fair, this issue doesn’t involve the unilateral right of the President to destroy anything he wants, anytime he wants, and to lie to Congress, the courts, and the country about it.
The President is only unfettered when it comes to unimportant things like that. A slightly dodgy set of recess appointments made in extremis to counter the fact that Congress refuses to do its job? That there sounds like an unacceptable overeach to me.
He’s still on the Berkeley Law faculty.
From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security and the separation of powers.
Yes, you might say that.
Which is rather like saying John Dillinger worked in the banking industry.
I was thinking that Lavrent Beria worked on issues of foreign policy, law enforcement and labor allocation.
Yoo and his former bosses should be in jail. If only there was some official or agency charged with investigating and prosecuting crimes.
Hacks have to hack. He sold his soul for Cheney’s approval and now Dick probably calls him up anytime he wants something stupid done. Cheney probably passes him around to his friends to use him anyway they want as well. He’s an embarrassment to human beings everywhere.
Cheney probably passes him around to his friends to use him anyway they want as well.
A little too Rude Pundit there.
I don’t know what you mean.