While on the subject of Bush and Cheney and their power grab for the Executive Branch, take a look at Conscience of a Conservative which is slated for September 9 in the New York times Magazine. This is an excerpt:
The Bush administration’s legalistic “go-it-alone approach,” Goldsmith suggests, is the antithesis of Lincoln and Roosevelt’s willingness to collaborate with Congress. Bush, he argues, ignored the truism that presidential power is the power to persuade. “The Bush administration has operated on an entirely different concept of power that relies on minimal deliberation, unilateral action and legalistic defense,” Goldsmith concludes in his book. “This approach largely eschews politics: the need to explain, to justify, to convince, to get people on board, to compromise.”
Opposing persuasion is force and/or subterfuge. What kind of government imposes its policies through lies or force?
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