Bob Woodward demands law-ignoring, mind-controlling presidential leadership
Washington's most respected reporter is embarrassing himself in his sequester showdown comments
BY ALEX PAREENE
Bob Woodward rocked Washington this weekend with an editorial that hammered President Obama for inventing the sequester and then being rude enough to ask that Congress not make us have the sequester. Woodward went on Morning Joe this morning, and he continued his brutal assault:
Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying Oh, by the way, I cant do this because of some budget document? Woodward said Wednesday on MSNBCs Morning Joe.
Or George W. Bush saying, You know, Im not going to invade Iraq because I cant get the aircraft carriers I need or even Bill Clinton saying, You know, Im not going to attack Saddam Husseins intelligence headquarters, as he did when Clinton was president because of some budget document? Woodward added. Under the Constitution, the president is commander-in-chief and employs the force. And so we now have the president going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement, I cant do what I need to do to protect the country. Thats a kind of madness that I havent seen in a long time.
Speaking of kinds of madness, Woodwards actual position here is insane. As Dave Weigel points out, some budget document is a law, passed by Congress and signed by the president. Woodward is saying, why wont the president just ignore the law, because he is the commander in chief, and laws should not apply to him. That is a really interesting perspective, from a man who is famous for his reporting on the extralegal activities of a guy who is considered a very bad president!
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