and so on. so the point that i have is by what constitutional authority does the president of the united states say, i will decide what redress will be made to the victims of this catastrophe by this firm. and i will decide who are the victims and who are not the victims. that, the constitution doesn t give that authority to the executive branch. so the government negotiates a great deal for the victims of the bp oil disaster. the government gets bp to hand over a ton of money to compensate the company s victims in this disaster, and conservatives having never really minded the whole executive overreach thing under george w. bush, conservatives, with this deal, decide they hatç it. they just can t stand it but they are having a very hard time articulating why they hate it exactly. hence the bizarre truck on the lawn analogy. they can t exactly explain why it just makes them feel bad. now it s possible that this is