On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> They've got a lot of different points. But just in passing, their
> main
> response to the argument that "they'll be out 18 months, and
> replaced by a
> bourgeois tool" is: you don't want the next bourgeois tool, and
> every one
> thereafter, to have these new powers. And that they will unless
> impeachment hearings are begun. And that the hearings will have
> the power
> (by themselves, *even without conviction*) to remove precedent from
> these
> engorgements of presidential power. Which, they convincingly
> argue, are
> beyond anything any president in history has claimed. And they
> also argue
> that if these precedents are left, we can be almost certain they
> will be
> used.
Well that's why there won't be impeachment hearings. No doubt the Dems would like some of these magical powers too, when they once again occupy the White House.
Doug