> RoMunn wrote: > As a separate question, the Administration has certainly pushed the > boundaries of executive power in the name of fighting the War on Terror, but > in this matter they have not gone beyond what other US presidents have done > in time of war. >
I don't think it started with the war on terror - it was from the moment Bush took office. And I don't think it's been so much his move as Cheney's. Remember the energy committee. And Bush's self proclaimed exemptions from law were architected and reviewed by Cheney. All pre-9/11 What Bush has helped me see is that it's important to have a weak federal government and to have each branch, in and of itself, weak. And preferably in a different party. There's no bigger poster child for that than Tom Delay. He's become everything he said he hated. While your point regarding impeachment (and I would add power-of-the-purse) is valid, my point would be that: 1.) If other powers have been suspended, why not that one? And, 2.) If the President is able to sell (or buy) Congress on his agenda then there's no check. I guess the whole thing has been a scary wake up call to me that, while our system may be good, it's easily defeatable. This President has come the closer to it's limits, even crossing some, than any President in my lifetime. I am now a dyed-in-the-wool weak government hawk. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:208547 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
