Restore the Senate's Treaty Power

[Hugh Conway]

By JOHN R. BOLTON and JOHN YOO

 

THE Constitution’s Treaty Clause has long been seen, rightly, as a bulwark against presidential inclinations to lock the United States into unwise foreign commitments. The clause will likely be tested by Barack Obama’s administration, as the new president and Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton, led by the legal academics in whose circles they have long traveled, contemplate binding down American power and interests in a dense web of treaties and international bureaucracies.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinion/05bolton.html

[kevbone]

Anyone want to go ride bikes?

[Mal_Con]

Yeah right, let Bush do anything he wants then require Obama a 2/3rds super majority to reverse any of the terrible decisions Bush made. Figures it was written by not torture if we do it Yoo and nut case Boulton.

[tvashtarkatena]

Hopefully, Bolton requires no introduction. Yoo was the sad fuck that authored some of the worst violations of the bill of rights into the Patriot Act, and advocated for the legality of torture.

 

Yeah, there just might be an agenda here.

[mattp]

On the same page with this editorial was one where William Kristol wrote that we have won the war in Iraq and that a speedy Israeli victory in Gaza is important for the war on terror. And today Ann Coulter was on TV saying that only liberals and communists seek to assassinate our presidents. I bet we're going to see a constant stream of this stuff on the editorial pages from those who have complained that the liberal media has been unfair to George Bush.

 

Bolton and Yoo were largely against treaties of any kind and Yoo was particularly into the "unitary executive" theory of government. How can the "liberal media" runs these pieces with a straight face?