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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:03 AM
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Anybody See This From Cato Institute on Bush: Power Serge
Edited on Fri May-26-06 05:46 PM by proud patriot
this conservative think tank doesn't sound too happy with the gop. (join the freakin club!)

http://cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/powersurge_healy_lynch.pdf

"At the very core of the First Amendment lies the right to criticize elected officeholders. President Bush has failed to protect that right.

In the arguments it has advanced for untrammeled executive power, the Bush administration comes perilously close to the Nixonian view.


The administration’s legal position can be summed up starkly: Whenwe’re at war, anything goes, and the president gets to decide when we’re at war.

President Bush has asserted the authority to exclude the judiciary from the warrant application
process by issuing his own arrest warrants.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:08 AM
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1. W's big government to enforce social conservatives views
is at work. He and Karl Rove soliticed the extremists support, and the extremists want a payback.

Another word for social conservative views, is theocracy. W signed on to their agenda. They "own" him.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:14 AM
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2. Cato is far right. jr has gone too far for them?
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:43 AM
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5. yes, apparently jr. has gone too far for them
...now that he is so obviously encroaching on THEIR constitutional rights.

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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 04:33 AM
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7. I thought they were libertarian? That is not the same as Republican
Course Bush is not a real Republican or what we thought of as one. That they are now selling off the Smithsonian in a back alley deal is almost more than I can take,. I should never have turned on TV this morning.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 06:11 AM
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10. I heard about that. It is a low blow.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 07:57 PM
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13. They're more libertarian right - you''ll never see
something like this from Heritage.
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Oversea Visitor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:15 AM
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3. The RAMPAGE of a Mad Chimp
He is out of control .
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:16 AM
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4. God, it takes them forever.
8 years of anti- free market no-bid contracts and corporate/big government oligarchy, a vast STASI like intelligence apparatus spying on americans, perpetual war and NOW libertarians are starting to criticize?
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:48 AM
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6. One of many who has been diminished by the 30 year dream of GOP
empire. Clue.. when someone talks about rule...for 30 years...in a democracy...where future elections have not taken place... something is up CATO!
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Minnesota Libra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 05:29 AM
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8. Gets pretty bad when the Cato Institute weighs in against a..............
....fellow neocon/fundie. :rofl: :applause: :rofl: :applause:
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 06:09 AM
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9. its all true but wonder if congress will realize how bush is using them
as a doormat?
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OzarkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 06:19 AM
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11. I don't feel sorry for them
They created this monster and have elevated and protected it. What else do they expect? Promoting contempt for government creates lawless governments and leaders who aren't afraid to trample on the rights of others.

Maybe now they realize the ideas they promote are bankrupt.


:nopity:
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 08:11 PM
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14. Bingo. He's THEIR baby. Be careful what you ask for, Cato & Co.
They have indeed created a Frankenstein monster. And frankly, having done so, they are the ones who should fix this. They probably won't, because ownership of a mistake of this magnitude won't be willingly claimed - by this bunch, anyway (since they never accept responsibility for fucking anything up). I saw a blinking of a Pox "news" show with that neil balloon-head person, and they were blaming Enron on Clinton.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 05:49 PM
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12. orleans please read this post
In the future please limit your snips of
articles to 4 paragraphs as per Democratic
Underground'scopyright rules .

proud patriot Moderator
Democratic Underground
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:15 PM
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15. oops. sorry. n/t
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