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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 06:00 AM Original message |
"Unitary Executive"--can we morph this deceptive phrase into |
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nebenaube (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. why acknowledge something that doesn't exist? |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 06:08 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. There are a whole lot of Americans out there who are not |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 06:09 AM Response to Original message |
3. That's also an over simplification of the theory. |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 06:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. i think the issue is interpretation of the theory; |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 07:04 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Right and I think it is quite credible. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 07:52 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. and Congress retains the right to provide the check and balance. |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 08:33 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I agree. If the individual is not completely within the Executive branch, s/he |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 09:49 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. They are under "checks and balances". |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 10:15 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I see what you are saying and I think that is the central issue that is going |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 01:42 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Exactly. And this is the challenge this administration |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 02:00 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. I see no real problem with concluding that the entire Executive branch |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 06:11 AM Response to Original message |
4. we could say "it's just a theory" |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 06:19 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. It is a theory that needs to be discredited. |
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maine_raptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 06:23 AM Response to Original message |
7. "Unitary Executive is the political version of the Flat Earth Theory." |
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doublethink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
8. I tend to agree with you on this Skidmore ..... |
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doublethink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
10. Here's something Al Gore wrote ..... or stated .... |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 07:56 AM Response to Original message |
12. It helps that "Unitary Executive" really does mean "Dictatorship" |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
13. Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Franco, Pinochet, et al., were all "unitary executives" |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
16. 'Is that like a KING?' 'Does that come with |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
18. The "Uni-Bush Executive." |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
19. Imperial Executive. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
20. Imperial Executive. (so nice I said it twice.) |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
22. Urinary executive. nt |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 03:54 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. urinary excrement |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-21-07 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
24. Proponents of unitary executive doctrine have an incentive to create emergencies |
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