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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 07:30 AM
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Hey Trolls, how do you like the sound of...
"Unitary Executive" Obama?
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Atmashine Donating Member (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 07:32 AM
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1. Lets do some warrantless wiretaps on them....
And find out!
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 07:47 AM
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4. What would the little trolls be afraid of, if they haven't ever...
Thought, Said or Done anything wrong?

Is the Confederate State Of Alaska sounding better to ya all the time freepers?(you can see Russia from there I hear)
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 07:38 AM
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2. Who's the Decider now, freeps?
Who's about to inherit the signing statement pen, surveillance authority, big honking tentacled Homeland Security, and interrogation dungeons in Gitmo you so thoughtfully provided for your Boy King?

Mind your manners, fuckheads, there might be fresh new consequences for being unforgivably mean and stupid.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 07:40 AM
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3. Unitary Executive Theory
The unitary executive theory "asserts that all executive authority must be in the President’s hands, without exception."

President George W. Bush "has been asserting from the outset of his presidency" that presidential power "must be unilateral, and unchecked."

"But the most recent and blatant presidential intrusions on the law and Constitution supply the verse to that refrain. They not only claim unilateral executive power, but also supply the train of the President's thinking, the texture of his motivations, and the root of his intentions.

"They make clear, for instance, that the phrase 'unitary executive' is a code word for a doctrine that favors nearly unlimited executive power. Bush has used the doctrine in his signing statements to quietly expand presidential authority." MORE...

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Unitary_Executive_Theory

Last time I checked, we still have 4 "wars" going on now...
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