Whom would you trust to tell you just whose responsibility it is to interpret the Constitution of the United States of America, and guard it from all enemies foreign or domestic? Your choices in this particular instance are White House Spokesperson Tony Snow and (p)resident George W. Bush, or founding fathers Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. Which party do you choose? According to this brief article at Salon.com, each of these two parties sees the answer to this question very differently. They are almost polar opposites, in fact.
Snow was asked about Bush’s recent signing statements (some of which I touched upon in my last blog entry), “isn’t it the Supreme Court that’s supposed to decide whether laws are unconstitutional or not?”
Check out Snow’s answer at the link above, as well as Madison’s reference to Bush as a tyrant. Man, the Founding Fathers foresaw everything, didn’t they! Definitely worth five or ten minutes of your time…