"The Bush Administration began in crisis. It now appears to be ending in crisis."

[ProSense]

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Bush Administration: Give Us More Unreviewable Power; We Did So Well The Last Time We Asked

JB

The Bush Administration began in crisis. It now appears to be ending in crisis.

Following the 9/11 attacks, the Administration claimed that it needed enormous new powers to meet the threat of terrorism. Members of the Office of Legal Counsel spun out wild theories under which the President had virtually dictatorial powers when he acted under his authority as commander-in-chief. The OLC also drafted an extremely broad authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) that the Administration would later use as proof that Congress had already authorized virtually anything it wanted to do.

The past seven years have required enormous efforts to keep the Administration from making ever more outrageous claims of unreviewable authority and engaging in ever more unaccountable practices.

And now, as Ronald Reagan would say, there they go again.

The country is currently enmeshed in a very serious financial crisis, one of the most serious since the Great Depression. The causes of this crisis are many, but one of the most important is the deregulatory philosophy that has suffused this Administration. This philosophy has proved intellectually bankrupt and now threatens to bankrupt the country as well. Had the Administration been willing to rein in the financial excesses of the past seven years, the crisis might have been avoided with far less cost to the country.

In response to the crisis created in part by its own incompetence and ideological blinders, the Administration now asks for enormous new powers to run the economy in a form of state planning that would make Friedrich Hayek turn over in this grave but would surely bring a smile to Carl Schmitt's lips.

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[old mark]

1. It also began in arrogant , ignorant stupidity

and seems like it hasn't learned much in 8 years.
Good riddance.

mark

[mscuedawg]

2. My dad thinks I read too many conspiracy novels...

but I often wondered...did the fubar'd election of 2000 come as a result of knowing some type of attack was brewing...and the powers that be didnt want a tree hugger like Gore to be in charge...

[Cha]

7. Al Gore would have averted that attack if anyone could..

he would have paid attention to the August 6, 2001 Memo warning of an impending attack and not go on vacation like fucking bushtard.

Al Gore is smart enough to know we breath from the oxygen of the TREES.

bush and cheney wanted 9/11 to happen to go into Iraq and get the OIL.

[mscuedawg]

11. Exactly! n/t

[Arugula Latte]

9. ...

Better Gore the "treehugger" :eyes: than that fuckstick who sat on his ass for 20 minutes and then flew around the country like a scared bunny and then declared war on a country that had nothing to do with the attack and then proceeded to bankrupt the country for the benefit of his fascist buddies.

[mscuedawg]

10. I totally agree...n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. One My Pet Goat moment after another

What I would like to know is how much of this was due to incompetence and how much was actually allowed to happen intentionally. With this secretive administration, we may never know.

[blue sky at night]

4. Let Us ALL HOPE....

that indeed it DOES END! I am so sick of these f*****g assholes I don't think I can wait any longer....I want off this planet.

[Cha]

5. bush lost and he sneered "Mandate"..his polls were low on Sept

10th.. then 9/11 happened because they couldn't keep the country safe..and his polls went up and stayed there because the corporatemedia kept blowing his horn.

The media and bushites lied the country into bombing Iraq and his poll stayed up there for awhile until he went to john mccain's birthday party instead of being there to help New Orleans when it was devastated by Katrina..and they've been going down ever since with one incompetency after another.

There was nothing the corporatemedia could do to save his legacy this time.

And, now it's The Perfect Storm for someone real to come along and lead the country out of the republicans' 8 long years of nightmare.

[BlooInBloo]

6. I have a feeling that Section 8 is gonna be a deal-breaker for our otherwise cowardly Dem...

congresscritters.

Just a feeling.

[tritsofme]

8. I think you're wrong.

The entire Bush administration has been one giant crisis, from start to finish.

[RichGirl]

12. George Bush...

...began with a huge gift...he was handed a country with peace and prosperity.