I think he's out providing and maintaining a navy or something

[avram]

I noticed this yesterday during a quick Google News scan:

The 10-member [9-11 investigation] panel had invited [National Security Adviser Condoleeza] Rice to testify. She declined, with the White House citing concerns about separation of powers.

What the fuck? Do they even bother trying to find good excuses for their cover-ups anymore? Or did they just chop the Constitution into random phrases that they draw out of a bucket? “Oh, sorry, President Bush can’t testify because, um, no person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years.”

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[bibliotrope.livejournal.com]

Someone should tell them the phrase "separation of powers" does not actually appear in the Constitution. After all, that's a major argument for some people who disapprove of the "wall of separation between Church and State" which also is not in the Constitution in those exact words.

Or maybe someone should bring out the big gun in the non-separation-of-powers war: the I word. Impeachment.