Where I came from it was fighten’ words to say the President outranked the Courts or Congress. Actually that isn’t true because no one would have said suchb an outlandish thing where I came from. Where I came from was some time back. I came from before jet planes but I didn’t come from before the U. S. Constitution. Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Stall and a few others taught us about the Constitution when I was in grade school at Muddy Creek grade school, and I want to admit right now they are so last year, or the years before.

Wherein you can see for your very own self that what I thought I knew about fair play in the courts went the way of propeller planes. Secrets so secret we can’t say their name.

Then I read that Karl Rove didn’t appear, as expected, in response to a subpoena from Congress, for the second time: Now that takes some nuts.

Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Stall, get a firm grip on the sides of your caskets, you are in for a roll.

I think the two of you would have been conservatives today, except, from what you told me you would never have gone along with the idea of a President Uber Alles. You would have balked at the idea of torture is ok even if the President says so. You would have raised a fuss about wire tapping and suspension of Habeas Corpus. Hell , 50 some years later I remember how to spell it because you both thought Habeas Corpus that important. You taught me how we had 3 branches of government, each equal to the other two and each responsive and accountable to the other. You would have said Karl Rove had no choice and in your time you would have been right, but now. Today’s conservatives don’t think the way you did. I don’t think they went wrong because you failed to teach them, they sold out to the siren songs of lower taxes and less government and more power.

I don’t think you have failed me, the system we once had, the one you taught me so much about, has faltered… at least for now. I think it will do better soon. For your sake, for my sake and for the country and the world we must get it together again. You have done your part, I try to do mine and others are doing their best, we will regain that land you taught me to love.

Sleep well tonight.

Pat Chandler