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That’s why — contrary to the conceit of Obama loyalists that conservati­ves would condemn him for the Awlaki killing — the most vocal praise has been heaped on Obama by the likes of RickPerry, Dick and LizCheney, MittRomney, BillO’Reil­ly, NewtGingri­ch, CharlesKra­uthammer, and BillKristo­l.  It’s also why the legal justificat­ion for Obama’s actions is being supplied by the likes of former Bush DOJ official JackGoldsm­ith, whose views on the War on Terror and executive power led him to approve of Bush’s warrantles­s NSA eavesdropp­ing program and to demand detention without charges.

It’s because, at least in this case, those right-wing warriors (in stark contrast to their Democratic­Party “adversari­es”) are being principled and consistent rather than changing their views based on which party controls the White House: they cheered for such actions and the authoritar­ian, lawless mindset behind them during the Bush years and they are doing so again now.  They insisted no due process, checks or evidence were needed to justify President Bush’s actions against accused Terrorists back then, and they still think that way now about President Obama (the President says he’s a Terrorist, and therefore he is).  That’s why, as I’ve argued before, Dick Cheney’s demand for an apology (expressed again this weekend) is not unreasonab­le: it is simply a fact that many of the actions for which he was so harshly condemned by Democrats and Obama himself (not all, but many) have become Democratic Party dogma under Obama, beginning with the notion that slogans such asWe’re at War! and He’s a Terrorist! justify whatever the Leader does and dispenses with quaint, obsolete, pre-9/11 concepts like evidence, charges, trials and due process.

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