Q. Thank you, Mr. President. I wonder if you can tell us today, sir, what, if any, limits you believe there are or should be on the powers of a President during a war, at wartime? And if the global war on terror is going to last for decades, as has been forecast, does that mean that we're going to see, therefore, a more or less permanent expansion of the unchecked power of the executive in American society?the president's argument that "being sworn to uphold the law" is some kind of check on a president violating the law means that:
THE PRESIDENT: First of all, I disagree with your assertion of "unchecked power."
Q Well --
THE PRESIDENT: Hold on a second, please. There is the check of people being sworn to uphold the law, for starters...
-impeachment is impossible. no president could ever be guilty of any high crime or misdemeanor because they are all sworn in when they take office.
-perjury is a logical impossibility.
it makes me wonder what bush thought about the clinton impeachment.
(thanks to MatthewB)
