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Originally Posted by roachboy
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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Why do you keep adding words and thoughts to my entries?
I didn't mention bush at all, nor do I mention the republicans line on refashioning anything.
I'm taking a very simple position here. Abuse of power is abuse of power, not a republican thing, not a democrat thing, but a person in position who abuses that position.
Yet it seems that everyone seems to think that there's a partisan thing to it, when plainly and simply there is an abuse of someone's position, democrat or republican, or simply put POLITICIAN.
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