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earthboundmisfit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 11:09 PM
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BUSH AND THE NIXON DOCTRINE
The latest from one of my favorite blogs, Museum of the Bourgeois:

"BUSH AND THE NIXON DOCTRINE
Yesterday, 22 April, was the anniversary in 1994 of the death of Richard M. Nixon.

Richard M. Nixon said, in an interview with David Frost, a few years after being forced out in disgrace as "President": "If the President does it, that means it's not illegal." (This is the true Nixon Doctrine.)



Nixon attributed this absurd notion to "a secret reservoir of power in the Constitution." Where did Nixon discover this dismal secret?..."


More at MoB: http://museumofthebourgeois.blogspot.com/
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 11:15 PM
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1. It's where Bushboy got his I'm the decider mantra...
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 11:18 PM
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2. It's very telling that these are the only 2 presidents who have
this twisted notion about the Constitution. Forget about checks & balances, Senate oversight? I don't think so.
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Independent_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 11:19 PM
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3. Kick!
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