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They say that Cheney's obsession (5.00 / 4) (#10)
by litigatormom on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 08:15:14 PM EST
with expanding the power of the Unitary Executive was a reaction to what he considered the excessive restraints on executive power enacted after Watergate. In other words, Cheney has been struggling to permit Bush and future presidents to engage in more Watergate conspiracies.

And by all appearances, in the case of Bush, he's been spectacularly successful.  After all, Watergate started as a mere burglary/political dirty trick that metastasized into a constitutional crisis.  The Bush scandals began as abuses of the war power and refusals to permit Congress to perform its oversight functions -- in other words, it started as a constitutional crisis, and has simply been growing in scope since then.

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It is my understanding (none / 0) (#16)
by waldenpond on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 08:32:52 PM EST
Cheney said in an interview that Nixon should have never given in.

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"Should not have given in" (5.00 / 1) (#19)
by litigatormom on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 08:42:28 PM EST
Did he think that the House wouldn't have impeached Nixon?  Wrong.  Did he think Nixon would be acquitted in an impeachment trial? Wrong.

Maybe he was thinking that Nixon could have stayed in office even after conviction in the Senate.  You know, declare a national security emergency and exercise his inherent power to protect America from the exercise of Congressional power.

Or maybe he really is demented.

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So? (none / 0) (#22)
by white n az on Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 10:12:21 PM EST


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A new definition for "So?". (none / 0) (#34)
by Fabian on Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 07:28:48 AM EST
I have to give Cheney credit.  I never saw anyone compress "They can go Cheney themselves." into a two letter word and a punctuation mark before.

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