The story involved not only President Obama's comments over the past weekend and the aftermath of that but also House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's suggestion the funding of the projects opponents be investigated. In conjunction with that

Source: http://www.talkers.com/online/?p=6582

Against the dark image of the president and his liberal allies, Tea Party activists defined themselves as the children of light. The racial subtext was always transparent. The Tea Party's strategy rested on a guerrilla campaign of chaos

Source: http://www.shoah.org.uk/2010/08/11/the-transformation-of-the-american-conservative-movement-into-fascism/

Cheney has a long history as a champion of presidential power. There is not much he thinks a president cannot do, and his attitude is widely shared by modern Republicans, who have given it the dignity of a theory with a name—the .. And I think it's just not historically accurate to say that President Bush or President Obama has more power than, say, President Truman did, or President Eisenhower -- who had the power to wiretap any American whom they regarded as a threat

Source: http://prairieweather.typepad.com/the_scribe/2010/07/how-america-ends-when-the-president-does-it-its-not-a-crime.html

Literature Review: Image Repair Theory and Presidential Apologia. Apologia is defined “the speech of self-defense” by Ware and Linkugel (1973) and much of its evolution deals with the term “subgenres” or “postures” (p.274): absolutive;

Source: http://invisiblemadness.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/presidential-apologia/

o16_48429278.jpg The Big Picture takes a big pixel look back at President Obama's first 167 days in office. He looks cool in pretty much every picture. Well played, Barry, well played. (Image credit: Samantha Appleton). posted in: guestblog , politics. Favorite This! . Third, fire anyone involved or complicit in warrantless wiretapping. Release logs of everyone we wiretapped. Everyone, not just US citizens. Fire anyone who so much as thinks the phrase "state secrets."

Source: http://boingboing.net/2009/07/08/man-our-president-is.html

An erroneous, expansive view of presidential power was imported to domestic matters under the heading of the unitary executive theory. During his first six years in office, President Bush issued signing statements objecting to 363 new .. He had an overbroad view of Presidential power as well. He may have felt some aspects of the illegal NSA warrantless wiretapping program were too much for him to stomach but he was willing to sign off on others (also illegal).

Source: http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/15/first-monday-marty-lederman-on-the-restoration-of-the-rule-of-law/

But when I think about which environment will be more conducive to change in my preferred direction, my presidential choice is clear. I will vote for Obama, and then on day one of his presidency, I will fight against many of his policies. .. H.R. 6304 ensures the dismissal of all cases pending against the telecommunication companies that facilitated the warrantless wiretapping programs over the last 7 years. The test in the bill is not whether the government

Source: http://boingboing.net/2008/06/24/obamas-support-for-t.html

Ann in AZ: You might want to point out to these law-makers that to allow the warrantless wiretapping to go on unfettered is tantamount to treating all of us citizens (and voters) as if guilty until proven innocent! . A spot OT, but with the first ever veto override today a question occurred to me: what does a veto override do to the legal theory (that Antonin Scalia seems so eager to take up) behind presidential signing statements? No signature, no statement.

Source: http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/08/say-no-to-presidential-fiat-more-brainstorming/

Before FISA was passed in 1978, there was a provision in the 1968 Wiretap Act (a/k/a Title III) expressly deferring to presidential authority in the field of foreign-intelligence surveillance. .. Rather, the theory of the opinion is that the people on the other side of those conversations, who are not U.S. Persons and are not in the U.S., do believe themselves to be suspected of being targeted as agents of a foreign power, and as a result of this belief, aren't talking

Source: http://volokh.com/posts/1155837741.shtml

Bush is not a president. He was not elected in accord with the Constitution. He is a presidential usurper whose usurpation violates the rights of all Americans to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution.

Source: http://ddrevival.blogspot.com/2006/06/bush-wiretapping-in-1936-nazi-germany.html