Monday at the Bird House

On Politics and Presidents and Kings

Good editorial in the NYTimes (via WAPO) this morning expressing some thoughts on what the Founding Fathers did to keep the president from acting like a king (as pointed out by the writer, the FF's were revolutionaries and hated kings). Primary check and balance item: funding. Here's the concluding paragraph of the article but do go read the whole thing - it's worth a minute or two of your time:

"...Members of Congress should not be intimidated into thinking that they are overstepping their constitutional bounds (in debating the war and in using the power of the purse to stop it). If the founders were looking on now, it is not Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who would strike them as out of line, but George W. Bush, who would seem less like a president than a king...."

Of course, we knew that already, that acting like a king business. It's the imperial presidency of gwb that has been a story for several years now.

On Tiger and the Saturday Scrambles and the Kidwell Boys

He hasn't won in his last five events now, matching longest winless streak in three years (from cbssports.com). That's impressive, the fact that he hasn't gone more than five events without winning. Kind of like Dave Wininger and the Saturday Scramble this year although I think Dave hasn't gone more than one, at the most two, scrambles without collecting the prize money. Time for a challenger or two to step up and seize the opportunity. Trenton? Tyler? Three of our hottest golfers and that's not counting Phil Eyler. Trenton has the last win.

On Doing Other Things

That means it's time for me to go do something else, like finish up the wiring to the antenna, it needing to be shortened and attached to the house in some fashion.

Go golf. It's good for you.