If the President can be the sole power who decides what laws and what parts of the Constitution apply to him, then how can any one say that there are any checks and balances to his power?

Good for him. Keep it up.

unless you can formulate a question that is applicable to the situation at hand, and does not include extension, expansion, or distortion, I’m not going to bite. I intend to offense, but given your track record, I don’t think you can do this.

The how would you describe a party that deliberately writes a lw that removes Constitutional protections from people and ends the abality of Congress to exercise its constitutionally required role of watchdog to the executive?

“If they pass this law they will be telling the entire world that they think the Constitutional experiment has failed. They will have driven a dagger into the back of the system of checks and balances”

Can you say hyperbole?

Wqhat facts do I have wrong, Ted? Does the bill or does the bill not remove 4th amendment protectiosna dn any oversight form this program? And if my facts are correct, then where, exactly, is my interpretation wrong?

Who cares why they are doing it — do you deny that they are? Because you cannot say “its not logical” in the face of the evidence that the illogical is indeed happening.