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cyn---yours is basically the republican line on the bush administration's attempts to basically refashion the relations between the executie and legislative while staying loosely within the rules. it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that what addington/cheney were doing went well beyond the more routine usage of executive privilege that the clinton administration (and nearly every other president) invoked.
if the mc-cain camp tried to defend palin's actions in alaska on the grounds of a transcendent executive, it was a clumsy move. the grounds are effectively an argument for executive impunity.
there was no state of exception stripped of the context that makes the Leader desirable (for schmitt), it's nothing more than that.
i don't think the move was a theory of power so much as the campaign shucking and jiving ahead of this report, which will probably end up a small nail alongside the Much Larger Ones being pounded by the real world into the box that contains the ruins of mc-cain's presidential aspirations.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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