Could we please refrain from putting "gate" on the end of this scandal?

I know some unimaginative dufus somewhere in the media is going to try to coin the term Wiretapgate, NSAgate, Constitutionalviolationgate, but we don't need to encourage that.

This scandal needs a name for the ages. How about "Neo-Facist Take Over" or perhaps "The-Day-A-President-Wiped-His-Ass-With-The-Constitution...gate"? Woops.

The most trivial sounding gate ever. . .Will bring you a link in a little while.

LINK HERE -- Jonathan Alter, Newsweek:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10536559/site/newsweek/

On Bush's meeting w NYT to get them to kill the story:

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No, Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story—which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year—because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker. He insists he had “legal authority derived from the Constitution and congressional resolution authorizing force.” But the Constitution explicitly requires the president to obey the law. And the post 9/11 congressional resolution authorizing “all necessary force” in fighting terrorism was made in clear reference to military intervention. It did not scrap the Constitution and allow the president to do whatever he pleased in any area in the name of fighting terrorism.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10536559/site/newsweek/

King George's official coronation?

the last "gate" that got a prez to resign. What's not to like about that?