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Right Helped Prepare the Way for Obama's Imperial Presidency
Over the last eight years, then-President George W. Bush repeatedly insisted that he was the sole constitutional "decider," free from congressional or judicial checks on his power.
He claimed the power to imprison American citizens as terrorist suspects for as long as he deemed necessary, tap Americans' phones without a warrant, and, through the use of the State Secrets privilege - -a doctrine that shields information related to national security - prevent the courts from testing the legality of those propositions.
In the last months of his administration, Bush behaved like a Roman dictator for economic affairs, deciding which companies would live or die with the $700 billion in taxpayer funds Congress had authorized the executive branch to commit.
On the campaign trail in 2008, Barack Obama promised that he'd take a different approach to presidential power. Last week, our new president faced his first serious test of whether he meant what he said.
He failed.
Last Monday, in a case alleging that the executive branch had broken the law by facilitating the torture of terrorist suspects, the Obama administration took the same position the Bush administration had; arguing that the State Secrets privilege didn't merely prevent the disclosure of sensitive pieces of evidence. It allowed the federal government to suppress the entire lawsuit and send the litigants home.
Civil libertarians have long looked to Obama to dial back Bush's extraordinary claims of executive power. But the notion that a man who ran as the reincarnation of JFK could be counted on to reduce the presidency's power and importance in American life always ranked among the most audacious of hopes.
well, now that he actually has a clue what was being done and why, he knows if he does what he said on the campaign it would be a disasterRight Helped Prepare the Way for Obama's Imperial Presidency
by Gene Healy
Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute and author of The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power.
Added to cato.org on February 16, 2009
This article appeared in the DC Examiner on February 16, 2009
Over the last eight years, then-President George W. Bush repeatedly insisted that he was the sole constitutional "decider," free from congressional or judicial checks on his power.
He claimed the power to imprison American citizens as terrorist suspects for as long as he deemed necessary, tap Americans' phones without a warrant, and, through the use of the State Secrets privilege - -a doctrine that shields information related to national security - prevent the courts from testing the legality of those propositions.
In the last months of his administration, Bush behaved like a Roman dictator for economic affairs, deciding which companies would live or die with the $700 billion in taxpayer funds Congress had authorized the executive branch to commit.
On the campaign trail in 2008, Barack Obama promised that he'd take a different approach to presidential power. Last week, our new president faced his first serious test of whether he meant what he said.
He failed.
Last Monday, in a case alleging that the executive branch had broken the law by facilitating the torture of terrorist suspects, the Obama administration took the same position the Bush administration had; arguing that the State Secrets privilege didn't merely prevent the disclosure of sensitive pieces of evidence. It allowed the federal government to suppress the entire lawsuit and send the litigants home.
Civil libertarians have long looked to Obama to dial back Bush's extraordinary claims of executive power. But the notion that a man who ran as the reincarnation of JFK could be counted on to reduce the presidency's power and importance in American life always ranked among the most audacious of hopes.
Change eh!
Seems Obama is like Bush in more ways than Just spending way to much.
Right Helped Prepare the Way for Obama's Imperial Presidency
well, now that he actually has a clue what was being done and why, he knows if he does what he said on the campaign it would be a disasterRight Helped Prepare the Way for Obama's Imperial Presidency
by Gene Healy
Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute and author of The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power.
Added to cato.org on February 16, 2009
This article appeared in the DC Examiner on February 16, 2009
Over the last eight years, then-President George W. Bush repeatedly insisted that he was the sole constitutional "decider," free from congressional or judicial checks on his power.
He claimed the power to imprison American citizens as terrorist suspects for as long as he deemed necessary, tap Americans' phones without a warrant, and, through the use of the State Secrets privilege - -a doctrine that shields information related to national security - prevent the courts from testing the legality of those propositions.
In the last months of his administration, Bush behaved like a Roman dictator for economic affairs, deciding which companies would live or die with the $700 billion in taxpayer funds Congress had authorized the executive branch to commit.
On the campaign trail in 2008, Barack Obama promised that he'd take a different approach to presidential power. Last week, our new president faced his first serious test of whether he meant what he said.
He failed.
Last Monday, in a case alleging that the executive branch had broken the law by facilitating the torture of terrorist suspects, the Obama administration took the same position the Bush administration had; arguing that the State Secrets privilege didn't merely prevent the disclosure of sensitive pieces of evidence. It allowed the federal government to suppress the entire lawsuit and send the litigants home.
Civil libertarians have long looked to Obama to dial back Bush's extraordinary claims of executive power. But the notion that a man who ran as the reincarnation of JFK could be counted on to reduce the presidency's power and importance in American life always ranked among the most audacious of hopes.
Change eh!
Seems Obama is like Bush in more ways than Just spending way to much.
Right Helped Prepare the Way for Obama's Imperial Presidency
there are reasons why Bush did what he did and they were legit
(even more funny is that the people who say this are serious about it)Sometimes he is behaving like bush but the majority of the time he is not behaving like bush (otherwise the republican hardcore fans here would be supporting for him instead of bashing on him, this is not yet the case).Obama behaving like Bush?
are you kidding, the ONLY reason Bush had ANY support was he wasnt as wacked out as Gore or Kerry
had you guys actually put someone else up that had any common sense, Bush wouldnt have won
well, in the 2000 MO GOP Primary i voted for Alan Keyesare you kidding, the ONLY reason Bush had ANY support was he wasnt as wacked out as Gore or Kerry
had you guys actually put someone else up that had any common sense, Bush wouldnt have won
I don't know what you mean with "you guys" (I m not a democrat), but back on subject: Who would you have liked instead of them?
