Alberto the Quaint suddenly thinks that presidents have limits
by digby
You know, sometimes I think Graydon Carter's fatuous post 9/11 declaration was right --- irony is dead. It must be. And it's come back in the bodies of Republican zombies:
Following President Obama‘s new immigration policy announcement, former George W. Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales voiced some concern about the means through which the president accomplished his goal. In issuing an executive order, he said, Obama may have violated his oath of office.
“To halt through executive order the deportation of some undocumented immigrants looks like a political calculation to win Hispanic votes,” Gonzales said at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference on Saturday, “and subjects him to criticism that he is violating his oath of office by selectively failing to enforce the law.”
I'm sure I don't have to remind anyone of Alberto Gonzales' opinions on presidential power when he was working for George W. Bush. Let's just say he didn't see a lot of limits.
But you have to admit that it takes a lot of guts for a guy who condoned torture and indefinite detention and was forced to resign from office for trying to rig votes for the GOP to come forward with an opinion as to executive power. He's just the little engine that could, I guess.
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