I'll take irony for $400, Alex

The White House has officially declared today, May 1, "Law Day."

This year's Law Day theme, "Liberty Under Law: Separate Branches, Balanced Powers," honors the wisdom of the separation of powers that the Framers of our Constitution established for the Federal Government. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention recognized the risks that accompany the concentration of power and devised a system in which the Federal Government's authorities are divided among three independent branches. James Madison highlighted the importance of our Constitution's separation of powers when he wrote, "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

No really, this was their own creation. As though every move of the last six years hadn't clearly demonstrated the Administration's disregard for the legislative and judicial branches of government as well as it's feeling that the President was above any restriction of law. Timely that the Globe itemizes some 750 laws disregarded by the President thus far.

Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.

And those are just the ones that were passed *since* he took office...

(via dailyKos & Follow Me Here)