And This Is Surprising, How?

"McSame," "Bush-Lite," "Huggy Bear": all are nicknames the DFHs have bestowed on Sen. John McCain because his positions ultimately promise eight more years of the same misguided domestic and foreign policies. More evidence of Sen. McCain's kinship to the current president emerged when it came to domestic spying. From today's NY Times:

A top adviser to Senator John McCain says Mr. McCain believes that President Bush’s program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, a position that appears to bring him into closer alignment with the sweeping theories of executive authority pushed by the Bush administration legal team.

In a letter posted online by National Review this week, the adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, said Mr. McCain believed that the Constitution gave Mr. Bush the power to authorize the National Security Agency to monitor Americans’ international phone calls and e-mail without warrants, despite a 1978 federal statute that required court oversight of surveillance. [Emphasis added]

Despite Sen. McCain's former protestations that the president's job was to execute the legislation passed by Congress, not to ignore or defy it, it's clear that he intends to follow the same unconstitutional policies of the current administration. Apparently the theory of the "Unitary President" must especially appeal to him, even though that theory completely demolishes the constitutional mandate of the separation of powers in the tripartite government. The excuse? A "war time president" deserves sweeping powers.

In other words, we can expect more of same if Mr. McCain is elected.

Nothing to see here, move along, move along.