The administration's program of radically expanding the power of the President will require a great deal of time and effort to undo. In addition to the precedents being set by his Senate-endorsed attempt to legalize his lawbreaking, his assertion (via) that he can sign and ratify treaties by himself and his authorization of torture there are no shortage of extremely important issues to address. The unforgivably accommodating Congress that allows this will have to be changed via the ballot box but that obviously will be a complicated process with lots of primaries, general elections, challengers and incumbents involved. It will also require ongoing contact with our representatives on the big issues like the upcoming House vote on telecom amnesty. (I'm offering to teach the secret Pruning Shears handshake to anyone who does so over here.) It looks like there will also be lots of cleanup on smaller issues as well - not of the Constitution-shredding authoritarian variety, just things that will make you smack your forehead and think "thanks a lot, pal." Here are a couple.

On Friday Bush issued his latest Signing Statement. Unlike many of his other ones this one does little damage to anything but how history will see this era. No direct signs he plans on ignoring any Laws or further usurping of the Constitution. This Singing Statement is nothing but a backhanded slap in the face at those that have tried to stop the wholesale destruction of our Constitution.