Bad Week for Bush - Great Week For Americans

First his illegal wiretapping program came to light, then former Nixon White House counsel John Dean called Bush "the first president to admit to an impeachable offense," then the Senate Democrats blocked permanent extension of the Patriot Act throwing the Republicans a mere bone of a six-month extension, and now a federal appeals court just slapped him over his detention of American, Jose Padilla.

And this last from a conservative judge, no less.

Judge J. Michael Luttig wrote the opinion for the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, and he denounced the Bush Administration for their treatment of so-called “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla. He basically dumped Bush's contention that the Padilla case should somehow be barred from a Supreme Court decision, which is about to rule on the government’s right to keep American citizens locked up without charge or prosecution.

Writing for the majority opinion, Justice Luttig said, the government's actions have left "the impression that Padilla may have been held for these years, even if justifiably, by mistake," and this may hurt the government's "credibility before the courts."