New York Times Lives in Fantasy Land

The New York Times lives in Fantasy Land when it comes to Mukasey nomination (and vote) for attorney general.

They want to create an entirely new meaning for the "advise and consent" clause of the Constitution, according to their editorial today.  They seem to forget that Mukasey was Sentator Chuckie Schumer's recommendation.  What more advise do they want?

They seem to forget the precedent of 200 years that hasn't changed that largely regards the President's political appointments as his choice, barring any serious deficiences.

But their biggest burr in the but seems to be Mukasey's refusal to render a legal opinion on the legality of waterboarding.

The New York Times, that venerated institution of American newspapers, which reguarly takes the Bush Administration to task for making legal determination absent Congressional approval, now wants nominees to do just that?

Here's the problem-- and maybe the New York Times should read the Constitution -- it is not the job of the Executive to make law.  It is the job of the Executive to enforce the law.  Their quick dismissal of the Senate's planned change to the US Annotated Code is stupid.  No nominee should ever give an irrevocable answer on an issue that is under debate.

We would never expect that from a judicial nominee-- why would should we expect it for any executive nomination?

Listen, this all comes down to the fact that left-wing hyper-socialists like the editors at the New York Times are incensed by the notion that there are real-life Jack Bauers in the world -- people willing to work in the dark, dirty recesses of the American soul to protect American.  And they know that if they come clean on this, they are completely in the shitter.  They know it.  You know it. I know it.

So they want to sucker a Republican administration into doing their dirty work for them.

Because that is how life works in Fantasy Land.