Oh. So like, a wet dream. Now I get it.

Oh. So like, a wet dream. Now I get it.

That’s how the Washington Post frames it, at least: In the legal battle over Arizona’s new immigration law, an ironic subtext has emerged: whether a Bush-era legal opinion complicates a potential Obama administration lawsuit against Arizona. The document, written in 2002 by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, concluded that state police officers have “inherent power” to arrest undocumented immigrants for violating federal law. It was issued by Jay

That’s how the Washington Post frames it, at least: In the legal battle over Arizona’s new immigration law, an ironic subtext has emerged: whether a Bush-era legal opinion complicates a potential Obama administration lawsuit against Arizona. The document, written in 2002 by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, concluded that state police officers have “inherent power” to arrest undocumented immigrants for violating federal law. It was issued by Jay

Wait, so if you try to finesse self-interested rogue regimes from a position of weakness — and let’s face it, taking certain military responses off the table is hardly the kind of preemptive strike that anyone outside of Susan Sarandon’s bedroom is likely to find diplomatically effective — the message those regimes may take from that is that you are, in fact, weak? Wow. Who could have seen that coming.

Robert Romano, ALG: So, despite the political catastrophe of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and the bailouts of Fannie, Freddie, AIG, GM, and Chrysler all under a Republican administration, the Senate — with the help of a “handful of GOP members” reported by the [Washington] Post — is now poised to institutionalize that authority for all time. Too big for too big to fail? The GOP seems to think so.