"Second, the Attorney General's attempt to cite a previous administration's activity as precedent for theirs - even though factually wrong - ironically demonstrates another reason why we must be so vigilant about their brazen disregard for the law. If unchecked, their behavior would serve as a precedent to encourage future presidents to claim these same powers, which many legal experts in both parties believe are clearly illegal."
i agree with gore - altho i wonder whether he misses the main point, as i've ranted before.
Why is a hobbled repuglican administration so desperate to claim uber-power for the executive? Even if they are successful at grabbing that power, they will only be able to use it for a year or so before getting totally lame-ducky (if for no other reason that the electoral politics change as we approach the end of any president's tenure.) The repugs are trying to claim the president as king, even though they are most likely to be handing that power to the Dems as the repugs get thrown into electoral wilderness for a decade or more while they try to throw an amnesia blanket over the electorate in the hope that people might forget the Bush Reign.
i'm pretty sure that Cheney et al don't really believe in executive power - but rather only Republican Executive power - therefore we are forced to ask what the hell they are doing. are they just trying to make sure that the next few years till impeachment or 2008 are as fun as possible for themselves? maybe. or are they really confident that there will be a repuglican president in 2009? how on earth could they be confident of that? there are two possibilities - one, they own the voting machines, or b) they plan to use all the executive power that they have taken for themselves and call off the 2008 election.
does anyone have a more reasonable explanation?
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