RSS Feed for tag: Executive Power Expansion

• How Republicans Created Executive Branch Hegemony
  published on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:45:29 CST
  
  The Democrats naively believe that just one more year and the Bush Regime horror will be gone. But...
• Lawless Nation - the Executive Branch
  published on Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:20:52 CDT
  
  The principal of unfettered executive power, absent political and judicial restraint, was...
• Elena Kagan is Obama's Harriet Miers
  published on Mon, 10 May 2010 13:35:46 CDT
  
  Remember the shock when George W Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court ~ a Bush...
• Obama / Our Dark Machiavellian Prince
  published on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:33:00 CDT
  
  As Nicol-- Machiavelli wrote in the early 1500's ~ The promise given was a necessity of the past:...
• America's Metastasizing Intelligence Apparatus
  published on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:24:15 CST
  
  The president has been getting some resistance from within his party for several new proposals, but...
• Executive Privilege for Social Secretary? Congress MUST SUBPOENA!!
  published on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:49:55 CST
  
  Taking ANOTHER page from the Bush/Cheney administration, the Obama white house is abusing executive...
• A Democrat Calls for Executive Accountability
  published on Sun, 10 May 2009 08:12:13 CDT
  
  Essential to the American struggle from the start was an understanding of the necessity of...
• How Dare You Want To Know What "Your" Government Is Doing!
  published on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:21:37 CDT
  
  The elites want to take advantage of the current financial crisis to expand their power. We can't...
• Kucinich Requests Investigation into "Executive Assassination Ring"
  published on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:04:47 CDT
  
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) Friday sent a letter to Chairman Edolphus Towns of the House...
• America's Darth Vader / Dick Cheney
  published on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:52:34 CDT
  
  As I have said for years, Dick Cheney's fingerprints are on virtually every lie and abuse of power...
• Rove Has 'Absolute Immunity', Ex-White House Counsel Says
  published on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:00:32 CST
  
  Earlier this month, Conyers' Judicary Committee also quietly subpoenaed former White House Counsel...
• Dangerous Executive Orders
  published on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:55:22 CST
  
  The Center for Constitutional Rights has expressed concern that President Obama's executive order...
• The Real Cost of Guantanamo
  published on Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:29:03 CST
  
  The president perhaps revealed more than he intended this week when he criticized other countries...
• Rockefeller and Feinstein: Preserving the Bush Legacy
  published on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:37:17 CST
  
  Some key players in Washington are about to start life without their favorite scapegoat. If the...
• A Farewell to Dick Cheney
  published on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:11:05 CST
  
  James Madison was the Founding Father most concerned with the prospect for abuse of power by the...
• Good news! House overturns BushCo's most Nixonian order
  published on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:58:04 CST
  
  Brushing aside a veto threat, the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to overturn a 2001...
• Preparing the Ground
  published on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:25:41 CST
  
  The administration's legacy is already being debated, and the biggest events of it may have too...
• 5 to 4-One More Vote To Tyranny
  published on Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:36:21 CST
  
  Cheney hints that one more vote was needed on the Supreme Court to fully implement the absolute...
• A Policy Subject To Interpretation
  published on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:58:35 CST
  
  The Senate released an extraordinary document last week, containing the kind of accusations that...
• The Theory of the Idiot Actor
  published on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:31:03 CST
  
  The Attorney General recently asserted that no pardons are necessary for any of the actors in the...
• The Latest Threat to Domestic Security
  published on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:29:31 CST
  
  The latest encroachment on basic freedoms arrived this week with the usual packaging: The need to...
• Breaking the Bailout
  published on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:25:51 CST
  
  The collection of furtive shenanigans we've come to call The Bailout took an extraordinary turn at...
• In Defense of the Electoral College
  published on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:53:11 CST
  
  The Electoral College, when it is noticed at all, is usually dismissed as an anachronism at best...
• You're Scaring Me, Obama: Let the Bush Years Die
  published on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:31:04 CST
  
  If your transition team really wants feedback on "where President-Elect Obama should lead this...
• Obama Should Take a Hard Look at Bush's Terrorism Executive Orders
  published on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:38:06 CST
  
  President-elect Barack Obama's promise to rethink, reexamine and maybe even scrap some of Bush'...
• Why the Final Nine Weeks Still Matter
  published on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:02:09 CST
  
  Now that the election is over and we can look forward to a new administration on January 20th it is...
• Turning Hope into Reality: Overturning Bush's Executive Orders
  published on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:35:35 CST
  
  It's widely expected that president-elect Barack Obama will do something about George W. Bush's...
• (Mis)information Laundering as a Presidential Prerogative
  published on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:14:12 CST
  
  One of the White House's favorite questionable practices is the use of foreign media to import...
• Ethical Business Executives Need to Commit to Social Responsibility
  published on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:44:59 CST
  
  business ethics, social corporate responsibility, drucker peter, claremont graduate...
• Who Needs a President, Anyway?
  published on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:42:10 CDT
  
  America was founded and existed for a short time without a president. As we prepare to elect our...
• Staying the Course in Guant-namo
  published on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:09:00 CDT
  
  Our extranational shadow justice experiment has been a failure on virtually every level. The clear...
• Big Bankers Blink; Paulson's Unprecedented Power; Shock and Awe Hints at the Good and Evil We May Soon Face
  published on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:46:26 CDT
  
  Paulson wields extraordinary power. We all need to think about what further uses it can or may be...
• Cheney-A Shadow Behind The Curtain
  published on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:38:23 CDT
  
  HE HELD FAST to his hard-core views of unilateral executive power even when they led to...
• The Inconvenient Existence of Abdel al Ghizzawi
  published on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:25:07 CDT
  
  A court ruling this week put new pressure on the administration to release seventeen...
• A Wonderful Failure
  published on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:19:29 CDT
  
  The House rejection of the bailout on Monday was also a rejection of incompetent officials and...
• The Right Abandons the Field
  published on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:49:36 CDT
  
  The crisis on Wall Street has demonstrated that conservatism has not a single idea remaining. No...
• Oil, or What? Life After Capitalism
  published on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:28:35 CDT
  
  But what is likely? That's the trouble: what is likely is much, much worse than the fascist...
• The Republicans' Disdain For Democracy
  published on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:23:10 CDT
  
  Republicans and their surrogates have made a great show of concern over elitism on the left, but...
• Living In the Shadow of the Bomb Thrower
  published on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:12:34 CDT
  
  The legacy of the contemporary Republican party is that of a corrosive pessimism about the...
• The Doctrine of Preemption Comes Home
  published on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:31:17 CDT
  
  Lawlessness is typically associated with Molotov cocktail-throwing anarchists, but a far more...
• We need to nail the Constitution to the desk in the Oval Office
  published on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:39:13 CDT
  
  When you get a new toy, an appliance, a computer, any complicated device, you usually get a set of...
• Those Who Did Not Go Crazy
  published on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:55:05 CDT
  
  The all-but-certain criminality at the top of our government has been getting more coverage lately,...
• The Hippie White House
  published on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:49:15 CDT
  
  Some seemingly long-settled issues didn't go away, they went underground. This time around some of...
• Truth, Justice, and the American Way
  published on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:59:15 CDT
  
  We may be confronted with some unpleasant choices when we finally have to address the full range of...
• The Ongoing Awfulness of Michael Mukasey
  published on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:55:26 CDT
  
  The Attorney General has done little more than parrot talking points and make excuses since his...
• Obama's Vow to Reverse Executive Orders a Breath of Fresh Air?
  published on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:53:35 CDT
  
  Bush resorted to executive orders once again to overhaul intelligence without approval from...
• Afflicting the Comfortable
  published on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:28:11 CDT
  
  Challenging the established parties and conventional wisdom in Washington is often considered an...
• Kucinich Testifies on Abuses of Executive Power
  published on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:57:35 CDT
  
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) testified about President Bush's culpability for leading the...
• Time To Create Some Martyrs
  published on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:28:31 CDT
  
  Congress has been timorously asking for the President to observe our systems of checks and balances...
• The Democrats' Risky Strategy
  published on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:57:03 CDT
  
  In an election year when the clamor for change is more than just a slogan, playing it safe may be...
• A judge working for a weaker judiciary
  published on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:37:50 CDT
  
  This week a federal judge issued a decision that must have been arrived at in a hermetically sealed...
• Going Out With A Bang
  published on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:30:02 CDT
  
  Most outgoing Presidents limit themselves to workaday concerns when they enter the twilight of...
• The Continuing Rule Of Fear In Washington
  published on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:49:58 CDT
  
  Scott McClellan has ignited a number of different conversations, but the conventional wisdom in the...
• Bad Luck All Around
  published on Sat, 31 May 2008 19:42:55 CDT
  
  Sometimes things go wrong because no one could have anticipated how events would unfold. Sometimes...
• The Other Kind Of Congressional Oversight
  published on Sat, 24 May 2008 06:48:50 CDT
  
  The House and Senate have been unwilling to exercise one of their most important responsibilities,...
• How Actual Journalism Works, Part 2
  published on Sat, 17 May 2008 06:54:20 CDT
  
  This week saw a claim of how reporting is supposed to work along with an example of the same. It...
• EVERYBODY KNOWS...
  published on Thu, 15 May 2008 17:10:50 CDT
  
  We are under the control of the criminally insane. Cheney has turned the greatest democratic...
• What Pop and Poppy May Have Forgotten to Mention to New Bride, Jenna
  published on Wed, 14 May 2008 12:44:04 CDT
  
  Critical info that Jenna could have used far more than any toaster or blender as she makes her new...
• Leading The Elephants To The Slaughter
  published on Sat, 10 May 2008 11:01:26 CDT
  
  The Republican party is facing another bad election cycle. Some of the reason is simply the stars...
• Congress Makes A Bold Move (Or Doesn't)
  published on Sat, 03 May 2008 07:30:03 CDT
  
  A recently filed lawsuit could initiate a dramatic assertion of Congressional authority. It could...
• Words Concealing Bodies
  published on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:56:37 CDT
  
  Last Sunday the New York Times detailed how the administration has used retired military offices as...
• The Handmaidens of Torture
  published on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:12:59 CDT
  
  Last week's torture news received little attention because of the combined effects of decorous...
• The Administration's Newest Spy Agency
  published on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:31:03 CDT
  
  The benign-sounding National Applications Office is another example of an objectionable expansion...
• Torture memo reveals tortured legal justification for Bush regime's crimes
  published on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:20:58 CDT
  
  This Department of Justice memo attempts to expand presidential powers and argues for immunity for...
• Legislate In Haste, Repent At Leisure
  published on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:07:15 CDT
  
  We rushed to pass a bad law in the wake of 9/11. The unsurprising consequences are bad enough, but...
• Tribal Conflict in America
  published on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:33:03 CDT
  
  Political discouse seems to have degraded recently and the real culprit may have nothing to so with...
• Break Out the Shovels
  published on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:21:43 CDT
  
  The President's political career will soon end, and he is eager to determine what people will...
• How Congress Could Lead On Iraq
  published on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:33:27 CDT
  
  The President continues to act as though Congress has no role in foreign policy. It does, and it...
• The Train Rushes By
  published on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:22:29 CDT
  
  Primaries were held in my state this week. Executive power wan't part of the discussion, and...
• How Republicans Created Executive Branch Hegemony
  published on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:41:05 CST
  
  The case for impeaching Bush and Cheney--indeed the entire administration--is by far the most...
• Poisoning the Well
  published on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:50:30 CST
  
  The President has made politicization of previously well-regarded institutions a high priority. ...
• The Silent Coup - How a nation ruled by law, becomes a nation ruled by men
  published on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:13:17 CST
  
  Men and women with a plan are changing the foundations of politics in US, and of the system of...
• Supreme Partisanship
  published on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:23:32 CST
  
  Our highest court showed once again this week that despite its protestations to the contrary it is...
• Collateral Damage
  published on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:48:32 CST
  
  The worst of the President's executive power grabs have obscured some smaller problems we'll have...
• The New Authoritarians
  published on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:16:19 CST
  
  There has been a radical turn towards antidemocratic attitudes by some and we need to start calling...
• A Moment For Leaders
  published on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:40:19 CST
  
  The Protect America Act expires next Friday, and what happens between now and then will tell us a...
• Presidential Directives and Executive Orders
  published on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:32:55 CST
  
  I have come to the conclusion that when GW Bush crowed about being tough on security he wasn't...
• Play, pause and explain
  published on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:33:05 CST
  
  We've come to approve of torture by a number of different ways, but perhaps the most insidious is...
• Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
  published on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:40:47 CST
  
  Excerpted from John W. Dean's Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative,...
• Sibel Edmonds and the Chamber of Secrets
  published on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:19:04 CST
  
  A former FBI translator is sitting on an extraordinary story, but our major outlets are acting as...
• The Prodigal Man
  published on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:58:02 CST
  
  George Bush has an unmistakable propensity to drain everything around him, and we are all poorer...
• An Impotent and Corrupt Congress
  published on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:31:19 CST
  
  Recent events leave no doubt as to the nature of the 110th Congress, and what an ugly nature it...
• Do Away With the State Secrets Privilege
  published on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:07:00 CST
  
  We have more to lose from our representatives frightening us into letting them obscure their...
• Making Congress Prosecute The President
  published on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:20:23 CST
  
  Arguments against impeachment are dangerously short-sighted, and fail to see this as as opportunity...
• Joe Klein, radical
  published on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:37:15 CST
  
  Time's columnist is not a neutral observer of a partisan fray but an active supporter of a...
• Lies, scares and deception on FISA
  published on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:50:14 CST
  
  Those in favor of disregarding the fourth amendment and handing George W. Bush blanket surveillance...
• The Ron Paul Cure
  published on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:39:31 CST
  
  Much of what afflicts the right these days could be fixed quickly with one dramatic step. Are...
• A dangerous direction for the military
  published on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:02:45 CST
  
  There appears to be an effort underway to turn the military into a wholly owned subsidiary of the...
• A dangerous direction for the military
  published on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:51:22 CDT
  
  There appears to be an effort underway to turn the military into a wholly owned subsidiary of the...
• Strike Three For the Democrats?
  published on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:34:19 CDT
  
  The Democrats in Congress capitulated on the Iraq war in the spring and surrendered on FISA in the...
• Executive Order 13422 and a History Lesson
  published on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:06:04 CDT
  
  One more step toward totalitarianism by the "Unitary...
• In The Eye of the Hurricane
  published on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:31:51 CDT
  
  A frightening apocalyptic vision of a future--but with...
• The New Enron
  published on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:31:36 CDT
  
  The latest wave of corporate malfeasance has arrived, but this time it's about more than simple...
• BUSH'S FATAL ERROR / DICK CHENEY
  published on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:02:17 CDT
  
  Bush's fatal error was allowing Dick 'the natural state of man is war ' Cheney to self - select...
• A Tipping Point?
  published on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 07:13:47 CDT
  
  This week produced a number of small but potentially significant challenges to the President. It's...
• Consent Without Advice; Reject Mukasey
  published on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:13:15 CDT
  
  Michael Mukasey's nomination for Attorney General should be rejected and the President forced to do...
• The bully in the schoolyard
  published on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:45:19 CDT
  
  George Bush has successfully intimidated most everyone he's had to work with. It's time for...
• Sally Field 1, Stepford TV 0: The Unwarranted Influence of America's Global "Defense" Industry
  published on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:53:56 CDT
  
  Hundreds of thousands of companies in 198 nations and territories hold prime contracts with DoD,...
• What Congress should do about the war
  published on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:39:15 CDT
  
  We are stuck in Iraq with no good options because Congress has lightly ceded its war-making powers...
• Regaining our strength
  published on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:49:24 CDT
  
  We've been too willing to be ruled by our fear, and our leaders won't change until we...