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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: carranza2 who wrote (9595)1/24/2006 3:21:08 AM
From: stockman_scott   of 541658
 
All the President’s Power
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From executive orders to undeclared wars, the White House has gone unchecked since long before George W. Bush.

by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
January 30, 2006 Issue
The American Conservative

amconmag.com

<<...Both liberals and at least some conservatives must share the blame for contributing to an ideological climate of which the inevitable outcome is the unrestrained executive under which our Republic now groans. Ultimately, though, apportioning responsibility for this transformation of the presidency, in which its occupant can flagrantly and defiantly violate the law, is of much less urgency than addressing—and, one hopes, correcting—the present debacle.

Former congressman Bob Barr, a conservative from Georgia, has it right: “The American people are going to have to say, ‘Enough of this business of justifying everything as necessary for the war on terror.’ Either the Constitution and the laws of this country mean something or they don’t. It is truly frightening what is going on in this country.”...>>
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