Recent Headlines Mean Bush's "Unitary Executive Theory" is HISTORY

The Cleaner

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Wed Apr-04-07 09:48 AM
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Recent Headlines Mean Bush's "Unitary Executive Theory" is HISTORY

and, much to the dismay of Cheney and friends, the power of the President is being checked like no other time in the last few years.

Today's headlines bear it out: Pelosi goes to Syria against Bush's wishes, Bush is getting seriously checked on his pet war in Iraq, and the Saudi King is rejecting meeting with Bush in favor of the Democrats.

So...what next? Now that Bush and Cheney's "Unitary Executive Theory" (which according to their plans gives the President King-like power) is flopping around in the water about to die, what do you think will happen?

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RUMMYisFROSTED

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Wed Apr-04-07 09:50 AM
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1. However, the "Petulant Executive Theory" is rapidly gaining adherents.

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MUAD_DIB

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Wed Apr-04-07 10:10 AM
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5. That's known as the Urinary Executive. Little Lord pissypants.

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blm

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Wed Apr-04-07 10:13 AM
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6. heh....ya both made me laugh.

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Divide Et Impera

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Wed Apr-04-07 09:53 AM
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2. Link?

I'd like to read a published article regarding King Abdullah's refusal of Shrub's visit in favor of the Democrats. I can't find anything online. I suck at the Internets!

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catmandu57

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Wed Apr-04-07 09:59 AM
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4. Go over to LBN

The story and link is there. Welcome to DU.

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Mist

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Wed Apr-04-07 09:54 AM
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3. Cornered rats can get fierce. Who knows what they'll do? They've proven

themselves to be shameless, power-grabbing, and greedy beyond measure. It'll either be great political theater or something far worse, something yet further destructive to our democracy.

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Parisle

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Wed Apr-04-07 10:29 AM
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9. That's what worries me,.....

--- All the self-congratulatory celebrating on earth doesn't mean a thing if Bush somehow proceeds to launch an attack on Iran. The Bush administration has never been a "legitimate" administration,... in the sense that they were sent into the White House with a mission,.. a mission from their corporatist-PNAC enablers and patrons,... and to this day, they've not said an honest word about what they were really trying to do. They still have ways to co-opt the democratic process away from the American people.

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Hosnon

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Wed Apr-04-07 10:17 AM
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7. The Unitary Executive Theory does not claim that the President of the United

States has king-like authority. The theory states that all executive authority of the federal government rests solely in the President. Article II provides support in this regard.

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The Cleaner

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Wed Apr-04-07 10:48 AM
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10. But doesn't that de facto make the President King?

Unitary Executive, in my interpretation, gives the President carte blanche authority over ALL the government.

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Hosnon

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Wed Apr-04-07 10:54 AM
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11. No. The Unitary Executive Theory gives the President carte blanche authority

over all of the Executive Branch of the government.

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blm

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Wed Apr-04-07 10:19 AM
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8. Don't forget having to pull the Sam Fox (swiftliar funder) nomination.

That was Bush losing even a small battle that represented the larger blowback for his tactics.

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