Not "the democrats," but this president, yes. What's more troubling is that it's been getting steadily worse, ever since Reagan. Each successive president has made moves to strengthen executive power. At no time since 1980 has a president said, "No, I don't need to be able to do what the guy before did, so I'll waive that right."
I think there might be a behind-the-scenes end game behind this continual assertion of power, but I only have a few pieces of evidence to support the claim, not enough to warrant going beyond speculation. Essentially, I think many of the advisers from the TLAs realized a threat in the early '70s that demanded action about the turn of the century, and that time has come. They haven't unleashed all that they have been preparing simply because it hasn't yet been necessary (though the Katrina response does strike me as a test run to see what might be possible).
But again, this is just speculation.
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Date: 18/11/13 20:11 (UTC)I think there might be a behind-the-scenes end game behind this continual assertion of power, but I only have a few pieces of evidence to support the claim, not enough to warrant going beyond speculation. Essentially, I think many of the advisers from the TLAs realized a threat in the early '70s that demanded action about the turn of the century, and that time has come. They haven't unleashed all that they have been preparing simply because it hasn't yet been necessary (though the Katrina response does strike me as a test run to see what might be possible).
But again, this is just speculation.