Glenn Greenwald reports: “It’s genuinely hard to believe that the writers of George Bush’s speech last night to the Federalist Society weren’t knowingly satirizing him. They actually had him say this: When the Founders drafted the Constitution, they had a clear understanding of tyranny. They also had a clear idea about how to prevent it from ever taking root in America. Also see Greenwald’s great critique of Giuliani’s version of Manifest Destiny, at FedSoc: There really hasn’t been someone like Rudy Giuliani — someone so drenched in plainly authoritarian impulses, merged with such wild-eyed militarism — anywhere near the White … Continue reading The Thick Irony at the Federalist Society’s Annual Meeting