The Outraged Left

Democracy in America provides some context to the liberal outrage over the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy:

I guess wounded, wailing laments over the president's pathetic, weak-kneed capitulation wouldn't grate so much had I heard a peep yesterday about the administration's success in standing rock steady behind the president's legal right to unilaterally order the killing of American citizens. One would think this holdover of George W. Bush's reign would outrage liberals, but evidently one would be wrong. Perhaps liberals should take courage from the fact Mr Obama doesn't cave on everything. Besides, what's the power to raise taxes on the rich next to the power of discretionary assasination?

It should be noted, that the case to decide whether or not the President can have someone dragged out and shot on his or her say so was thrown out over a technicality. It's boggling that this sort of decision, one that simply must be made to determine what sort of country we live in and what sort of powers a President can assert, was kicked down the road because the wrong person filed suit.