Dan Drezner, blogging from his new digs at FP (congrats to Dan, Marc and the others who made the move), seems to share my skepticism over Bolton and Yoo’s conversion to the Concerned Citizens for the Proper Role of the Legislature in Foreign Policy:
Now, on the one hand, one could interpret this advice as a warning about the dangers of implementing international agreements without the broad support of Congress and the American people.One could also, however, interpret this advice as awfully strange, as it emanates from officials who have, heretofore, been mostly concerned with the augmentation of the executive branch’s power at all costs (and implemented plenty of congressional-executive agreements while in office).
It is terribly convenient, now that they are out of power, to be suddenly concerned with Obama running roughshod over the legislative branch. The domestic parallel would be if Bush officials who embraced No Child Left Behind and intervening in the case of Terry Schiavo suddenly developed a Strange New Respect for federalism.
Fret not, that’s coming next.
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