love freedom or we'll kill you

* John Laesch put up a victory post over at dkos and spent some time there in the comments (h/t steve)

* athenae: " I don't think Bush has a foreign policy so much as lists of likes and dislikes scrawled in crayon on the back of an Applebee's placemat. I think our new "love freedom or we'll kill you" policy has been pastede on yey to make Iraq look less crazy than it does now in light of, you know, all the dead people."

* re PreznitBlinky's ' future Presidents will decide when U.S. troops leave Iraq' comment, everyone assumes that means that troops will be in iraq till 2009 - but if we impeach the bastard soon, then perhaps a future president can get them outta iraq before 2009 :-)

* damien joins in the PeakOil debate. emptywheel joins in too. they are both smarter than i.
my dream for the day is that we are running out of oil and we have wise leaders who recognize this and rather than start wars for resources actually devise a plan to move our economies/lifestyles away from oil-dependence for everyone in an orderly fashion - and save the planet from global warming in the process.

* glenn:

"the DoJ made clear to Congress that even if Congress passes some sort of newly amended FISA of the type which Sen. DeWine introduced, and even if the President "agrees" to it and signs it into law, the President still has the power to violate that law if he wants to. Put another way, the Administration is telling the Congress -- again -- that they can go and pass all the laws they want which purport to liberalize or restrict the President's powers, and it does not matter, because the President has and intends to preserve the power to do whatever he wants regardless of what those laws provide
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Can that be any clearer for you - Congressmen, Senators, journalists? The President is bestowed by the Constitution with the unlimited and un-limitable power to do anything that he believes is necessary to "protect the nation.""
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Put another way, the Administration has seized the power of Congress to make the laws, they have seized the power of the judiciary to interpret the laws, and they execute them as well. They have consolidated within themselves all of the powers of the government, particularly with regard to national security.