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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by guyy
No, you're wrong about that. The idea that executive power is supreme and transcendental is Republican. You can trace this notion of the executive back to the political theories of Carl Schmitt[1], who had something of a revival in academia in the eighties and early nineties, but in the context of contemporary US politics, Nixon is the more immediate source. Nixon's young turks (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush I...) took to it like flies to shit. As for Palin, her theory of the executive changed remarkably once she was nominated. Suddenly she was above subpoenas.
[1] There were others espousing more or less the same theories, e.g., in Japan in the 1930s, but Schmitt is best known.
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Sorry, no republicans do not have a monopoly on abuse of power.
Mayor Daley of Chicago - Democrat (executive)
William Jennings Jefferson of Lousiana - Democratic
Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall NYC - Democrat
Gerry Studds - Democrat
Gary Condit - Democrat
Jim McGreevey - Democrat (executive)
Heck, I can't even list all the NJ Democrats that have abused their power.
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Last edited by Cynthetiq; 10-11-2008 at 06:37 AM..
Reason: listed executive branch
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