Posted by
a_son_of_liberty on Friday, June 13, 2008 12:00:00 AM
The old baseball adage, "Three strikes, your out!" should apply to the recent Supreme Court decision in favor or the Islamofascists held at Guantanimo. This is the third time that the "liberal five" have come out against the Commander-in-chief and his Military. In short, they have embarrassed our Nation in front of the world, and the President has erred three times by saying in knee-jerk fashion that he would follow their decision. Given the inevitable loss of human life that will follow these bad decisions, Bush has more than enough reason to set their decisions aside, much like the stance taken by Lincoln during his administration. And the U.S. Constitution does NOT prohibit this potential action. The Supreme Court does not have greater power than the executive branch. Nor is it saddled with protecting the Nation from threats, either foreign or domestic. The President needs to rethink his decision to adhere to this horrific decision, and should follow the advice of the Chief Justice and the minority view immediately in this third case. The Congress has the ultimate responsibility for overriding these poor decisions by the Court, even if it means forging a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution that the Court can never usurp. The blood of those Americans that lose their lives due to this poor decision will be on the hands of every liberal Court member. Duplicitous vipers like Souter and Breyer, and feckless idiologues like Kennedy and Ginsburg, with liberal stalwarths like Stevens all made for a most treacherous decision with the primary intent of delivering lame-duck Bush a figurative "knock-out punch." The President must not respond in Naive fashion, but rather should be bold and corrective in his approach to such a decision. He should set the decision aside, knowing that impeachment for such a necessary action will never result in conviction by the Senate. If he were to get impeached for such a protective action, it would not mean very much given the highly partisan atmosphere in Washington DC and the recent impeachment of Clinton. History would view such an action as an overused mechanism employed by immature Congressmen.