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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by guyy
OK Cyn, i'll address the issue of run-of-the-mill corruption.
The Palin case is interesting because the McCain campaign has used the theory of executive supremacy in a case of ordinary corruption. As an ordinary governor, she abused her executive powers in a family feud. It doesn't reflect well on her, but ultimately, it's a family feud in someplace far away. However, once she became the VP candidate, the McCain campaign defended her with the theory of the supreme & transcendental executive. This idea has been propagated by Republican executives and their agents. It's on paper, in the Yoo torture memo , in Nixon's idea of executive privilege, in Carl Schmitt's books. The new development is that in Schmitt and even in the torture memos, supreme power is necessary because we're in a "state of exception", a crisis for the body politic. The crisis in Palin's case seems to be "we're doing poorly in the polls and would do worse if we got busted for this."
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So it's more interesting because someone else makes the "theory of the supreme & transcendental executive" claim and very different than executive privilege Mr. Clinton was using when he was not willing to acknowledge subpeonas from Whitewater to Ms. Lewinsky?
or can we not simply agree, that abuse of power is abuse of power, no matter the rationale or reason?
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