How is it that Republicans always talk about liberals as the ones who want to reinterpret the Constitution? Change the laws? Ignore the long history of “law and order”?

IMAGINE A PLACE where soldiers are entitled to burst through doors without warrants and citizens can be locked away without trial. Imagine that the leader of this place has the power to silence dissenters and the press and has the right to keep duly elected legislators from having a voice in these matters. Imagine further that he can unilaterally rip up and disregard any treaty he dislikes and that he has been told he is on solid legal ground by a hand-picked circle of advisers.

This is not some lawless Third World country or dusty fictional outback from a sci-fi movie but the United States of America, as described in a series of newly released Justice Department memos from the early years of the Bush administration.

via Frightening Memos From the Office of Legal Counsel – washingtonpost.com.

And so we keep finding out more and more about the nightmare that was the last eight years. Except…When you listen to the ex-Bush Admistration Officials, none oof what you remember, none of what you are reading in the papers today, none of what was in the paper for the last eight years ever happened. It is all a figment of the liberal press and the far left of the blogosphere…I heard Karl Rove on Sunday and Grover Norquest on the News Hour last evening both blaming the Democrats for the failure of the economy and telling everyone that the only way we could turn it around is…Cut taxes, cut taxes, and oh by the way let’s also cut taxes. It all sounded like the McCain energy plan…Drill, Drill, Drill.

It all makes you wonder what is with these guys and failed policies. America has tried their solutions, some on the national level and some at the state level, and the results are what led to the rejection of Republicans in the past two elections.

I know, living in Texas and being subject to so many Republican experiments has left me far from thrilled with the depth of their ideas and the unintentioned consequences (at least we hope they just didn’t think it through ’cause thinking otherwise is really upsetting) of what their proposals lead to…Try living through a Texas summer in an unregulated electric economy…Thank you Phil Gramm and Tom DeLay for all of your service to the American Corporations.