Monday, April 07, 2008
The misunderstood convenience of unencumbered presidential power
It's not that the president exercises unilateral power without Congressional action, it's what he exercises it for.
2 Comments:
By 
Georg Felis, at
Mon Apr 07, 06:52:00 PM:
I seem to remember recently the Left having a fit about Bush suspending a number of regulations in order to accelerate the building of the border fencing (such as it is) also.
The only unrestricted power of the President that I remember, is the power of the pardon, which once issued is the ultimate "Get Out Of Jail Free" card, although I would support the suspension of said power for the 100 days previous to each President's end of term due to some recent misuse.
By BB-Idaho, at
Tue Apr 08, 11:53:00 AM:
In the first instance, action based on faulty intelligence, in the second based on incomplete science...
