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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (320332)	1/12/2007 3:34:52 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573678

Ted, > The constitutional crisis I am talking about is one where the President and Congress are at loggerheads, dividing the country further. I think it's important to clarify terms here. There is a huge political crisis here, but there is no constitutional crisis. There's both. The roles are clear. The roles are not clear. They've become blurred over the last century. That increased under Bush because Bush/Cheney believe in a strong executive branch. It doesn't matter how unpopular the sitting President is. The only way to stop what he's doing is to either impeach him or cut off his funding. True. But the Dems will only cut off funding for the 20K troops. I think that won't stop Bush and he will proceed; eventually causing a crisis in the budget which could lead to paralysis within the gov't. The only "constitutional crisis" in your mind is the lack of a "vote of no confidence," but even then, you could always push for an amendment. Let's look at the definition of a constitutional crisis: "A constitutional crisis is a situation in which separate factions within a government disagree about the extent to which each of these factions hold sovereignty; as such, it is distinct from a rebellion, in which factions outside of a government challenge that government's sovereignty. A constitutional crisis can lead to government paralysis, collapse, or civil war." Its clear at least to me that Congress and the presidency disagree "about the extent to which each of them [these factions] hold sovereignty" and that disagreement could lead to the paralysis of the gov't.