How Many Laws Can One Man Break? (Bush Crime Family Remix)

We've said it before. President Clinton may or may not have been the first black president, but President Bush is most certainly the first gangsta president. I'm pretty sure he would have Dick Cheney shoot his brother Jeb in the face if he ever caught him stealing from the family. Today's Boston Globe reports (in a seven page article) that Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office (although he has only been caught violating a few of them).

Money quote:

Bruce Fein, a deputy attorney general in the Reagan administration, said the American system of government relies upon the leaders of each branch ''to exercise some self-restraint." But Bush has declared himself the sole judge of his own powers, he said, and then ruled for himself every time.

''This is an attempt by the president to have the final word on his own constitutional powers, which eliminates the checks and balances that keep the country a democracy," Fein said. ''There is no way for an independent judiciary to check his assertions of power, and Congress isn't doing it, either. So this is moving us toward an unlimited executive power."