Lies some right-wing lawyers told me

When last we visited David Rivkin, Jr., and Lee Casey -- a couple of former Justice Department lawyers under Reagan and Bush I -- they were making a legal case for attacking Iran, and, in so doing, earning for themselves the title of 'right-wing ass-clowns' in perpetuity.

Yesterday, they once more took to the pages of the WaPo, this time to inform us that we only believe Congress is a branch of government co-equal with the executive when, in fact, it has almost no authority to rein in a president gone wild …

[Our] constitutional fabric features two coordinate political branches, with unique responsibilities and independent legitimacies. Thus, even if one assumes that, as critics allege, the November election results were a call for disengaging from Iraq, efforts by some congressional Democrats to chastise the president through a resolution of "no confidence" in his Iraq policy have no place in our constitutional culture. The Framers did not establish a parliamentary system.