Cheer up, it could be worse. Lincoln suspended habeus corpus. Roosevelt forcibly interned thousands of Japanese-Americans for years without charges, without due process. We survived those events, and those two gentlemen are generally regarded as two of our greatest presidents. Tack on Washington, who might have become King George had Alexander Hamilton gotten his way, and Jefferson, who single-handedly doubled the size of the United States without even asking Congress, and we have a history of Presidents wielding out-sized power when the occasion warrants.
We'll survive Bush, Cheney, the Patriot Act, the unitary presidency, and all the rest of it. I guarantee you that whether McCain or Obama wins in November, there will be sweeping changes in the machinery of the Executive Branch. On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Judah wrote: > > So yeah, hard for this congress to get much done without a 60 vote majority > and part of that is due to failing in the Democratic leadership. Lord knows > I've written them about that :) But it is also because of the unitary > executive policy that Bush has pushed and has largely gotten away with. Once > again, the expanding power of the federal government and in particular the > executive branch is what I think will be the longest term and scariest > outcome from the so-called War on Terror. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:270298 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
