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Today, Congress exercises police powers never granted by the Constitution. Conservatives who favor federal 'wars' on drugs, gambling and other behaviors should understand the damage they have done to the constitutional underpinnings of limited government.
President Barack Obama, vowing to elevate Washington to the level of his fastidiousness, came from Chicago, where the political machine inoculates itself from scandals by the proliferation of them: Many scandals mean merely cursory scrutiny of most.
Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says:
Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government's large capacity for misbehavior. And, entertainingly, the answer to the question "Will Barack Obama's scandals derail his second-term agenda?" was a question: What agenda?
George Will, who has written a column for the Washington Post since 1974, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977. He writes a column for Newsweek, is a contributing analyst with ABC News and has been a regular member of ABC's "This Week" show since 1981. Will, who was born in 1941, taught political philosophy at Michigan State University.
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