Reagan’s Trickle Down Theory was never gonna work and it’s been Trickle On ecomonics ever since. Bush Senior, when he ran against Reagan, called it “Voodoo Economics” but he knew which end of the trickle he wanted to be on.
Eventually the trickle became a tornado-force siphon, sucking the blood, sweat and tears of the folks at the bottom of the pyramid ever upward toward the elites that Junior Bush calls “my base.”
Americans have noticed by now that they are being trickled on but why aren’t they (more) pissed off?
The current president-- appointed by the Supreme Court-- nominated to that Court Mr. Elite-o, who advocates a Unitary Executive theory. This would provide the golden boy at the top of the golden pyramid a new position to trickle from: King.
Maybe some folks think there is nothing they can do and have decided they KNOW how the House and Senate will vote so what-the-hell, so they do nothing and they were "right"-- but YOU know BETTER!
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On the January 13 PBS “NOW” program (transcript not available), a guest was asked “who determines the scope of the extended powers of the President?”
Answer: “THE SUPREME COURT”
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/civilliberties06.html Following are links to DU threads and other sources for info on the Unitary Executive. Check it out.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... Testimony on Alito from Professor Goodwin Liu
Posted by realFedUp
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That concern is Judge Alito’s lack of skepticism toward government power that infringes on individual rights and liberties. Throughout his career, with few exceptions, Judge Alito has sided with the police, prosecutors, immigration officials, and other government agents, while taking a minimalist approach to recognizing official error and abuse. He is less concerned about government overreaching than federal appeals judges nationwide, less concerned than Republican-appointed appeals judges nationwide, and less concerned than his Republican-appointed colleagues on the Third Circuit (see Appendix A). In this area, Judge Alito’s record is at the margin of the judicial spectrum, not the mainstream. His deferential instinct toward government is at odds with the Supreme Court’s vital role in protecting privacy, freedom, and due process of law, and it deserves special concern in light of the questionable tactics being used to fight the War on Terror.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... Adam Ciongoli ....Alito's "Corner Man"
posted by HeatherDawn
On January 10th during the Alito hearings Senator Durbin mentions at the beginning of his 20 minute round of questioning that he had a "disagreement" during the break of the hearings with Adam Ciongoli whom Senator Durbin referred to as Alito's "Corner Man". Adam Ciongoli has been featured on EVERY cable news outlet over the last few days fiercely supporting the Alito nomination. He is labeled only as a 'former Alito clerk'.
He is much more than that though, as Counselor to the Attorney General John Ashcroft, he served as the principal legal advisor in the Office of the Attorney General. He was known as 'Ashcroft's right hand'. During that time he was a key drafter of the Patriot Act and implementing the Unitary Executive theory in Bush's administration.
He was also put in charge of the 9/11 Commission:
http://www.becomethemedia.com/news/2003/WH_delays_911_i ...
"The administration decided that the 9/11 commission would have to channel its requests to obtain documents and interview personnel from the executive branch through the Justice Department. Adam G. Ciongoli, counselor to the attorney general who was assigned to take on this role, says he has merely acted as a "facilitator."
But Commissioner Max Cleland, a former Democratic senator from Georgia, says that Mr. Ciongoli is acting as a political gatekeeper, "cherry picking" the documents the White House wants to withhold. "It's obvious that they're sifting the information to the 9/11 commission now," he says. "We're way, way late here. The picture is not encouraging."
Prior to that position, Ciongoli served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, which he joined in April 1999. From 1996 to 1999, Ciongoli practiced appellate law in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kirkland and Ellis, where he worked along side Kenneth Starr.
He also served as a law clerk to United States Circuit Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1995 to 1996.
Ciongoli graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, and holds a B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ciongoli is now Vice President of Time Warner.
The reason I believe Alito was selcted by the Bush administration to be the next Supreme Court Justice is because of the Unitary Executive theory, Adam Ciongoli also supports this theory, which everyone should read (see link below)
Samuel Alito in a 2001 appearance before the conservative Federalist Society, he said he continued to believe in the idea of the "unitary executive." That concept holds that the Constitution gives the president all federal executive power, and means Congress likely could not grant agency heads powers outside the president's reach.
This is a link to an extensive history of the theory of the Unitary Executive and its implementation by the Bush administration:
http://www.users.muohio.edu/kelleycs/paper.pdf 
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