Sorry, but there is no bubble to bust, my deep respect for Bush not withstanding.
What floutings are you referring to that paved the way for the Obama era? The NSA spying? or are you referring to the increase in government spending which I oppose but is
not flouting the Constitution.
The spending doesn't, the spying does, and among other things that do we can cite Bush's signing of McCain-Feingold---a bill which
he knew to be unconstitutional, and had said as much in the months before the final version reached his desk, but which he
signed anyway---was a flagrant violation of his oath of office. No Child Left Behind flew in the face of the Tenth Amendment. Like
only a couple too many of his predecessors, he failed to procure a proper declaration of war from Congress regarding the Iraq War.
And, like a couple too many of his predecessors and his immediate successor, he all but admitted that there were times when
the Constitution was just a little too inconvenient when it came to getting done what he wanted or "needed" to be done.
And if you consider the thesis of Mr. Tanner's book, and concur that further metastasising big government indeed flies in the face
of the Constitution, it is impossible to deny that Mr. Bush and his Republican Congresses flouted the Constitution. As did the
first Clinton Administration before them; as did His Excellency Al-Hashish Field Marshmallow Dr. Barack Obama Dada, COD, RIP,
LSMFT, Would-Have-Been Life President of the Republic Formerly Known as the United States, to follow them. As will either
Donaldus Minimus or Hilarious Rodent Clinton---neither of whom has been known heretofore to have construed the Constitution
reasonably (and it's an open debate as to how much either of them really knows the Constitution)---to come.
