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Clinton vows review of executive power
Guardian ^ | 10/23/07

Posted on 10/23/2007 10:57:50 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker

Hillary Clinton would launch a policy review as president with an eye towards giving up some of the executive powers accumulated by George Bush, she tells Guardian America in an interview today.

The New York senator and frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination also accuses the Bush administration's broad brush approach to terrorism of making it harder to understand "what it is we were up against", and expresses concerns about the attitude of the president's nominee for attorney general to interrogation and "expansive" executive power.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: hillary; powerhungry
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1 posted on 10/23/2007 10:57:50 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
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To: NativeNewYorker

BS! Will never happen, unless it ends up granting MORE powers to the president.


2 posted on 10/23/2007 10:58:46 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

ROFL - Hillary give up power???? Be serious, how can anyone believe anything coming out of that witch’s mouth??


3 posted on 10/23/2007 10:59:44 AM PDT by Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
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To: Lee'sGhost

Clintoon? Give up power? It’ll never happen.


4 posted on 10/23/2007 11:01:15 AM PDT by Paladin2 (We don't fix the problem, we fix the blame!)
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To: NativeNewYorker
After she mandates national health care, overrides Congress and pulls troops out of Iraq........
5 posted on 10/23/2007 11:02:01 AM PDT by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

It’s rare than a presidential candidate declares that they intend to undermine the US Constitution.


6 posted on 10/23/2007 11:02:30 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: NativeNewYorker

"After a comprehensive review, we have decided to seek UNLIMITED POWER!"

7 posted on 10/23/2007 11:02:36 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

What makes her think she has the right to diminish the powers of the executive branch? If she’s complaining that Bush had no right to expand them, surely she also has no right to expand them, reduce them or change them in any way. Surprise, surprise, her logic is faulty.


8 posted on 10/23/2007 11:02:40 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: Lee'sGhost
BS! Will never happen, unless it ends up granting MORE powers to the president.

That's exactly what I thought. Her idea of "reviewing executive powers" (wink wink) would be to determine which additional ones she needs to achieve her world view.

9 posted on 10/23/2007 11:02:47 AM PDT by Lou L
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To: Red6

She thinks the president has power now, wait till she gets in office. She will be amazed at how much power she is going to get.

Oh Wait...Nevermind.


10 posted on 10/23/2007 11:03:43 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)
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To: NativeNewYorker
Didn’t Hugo Chavez start out doing the same thing before his power grab?


11 posted on 10/23/2007 11:04:17 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: NativeNewYorker
Hillary Clinton would launch a policy review as president with an eye towards giving up some of the executive powers


12 posted on 10/23/2007 11:04:55 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Translation: President Hindenburg must be reigned in.


13 posted on 10/23/2007 11:06:03 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: NativeNewYorker

Biggest laugh of the day. You should also
include the name of the author...Michael Tomasky
then go read his bio. An excerpt from Wikipedia:

Michael Tomasky is a liberal American columnist, journalist and author.

Tomasky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. He is a columnist at New York, where he has written “The City Politic” column since 1995. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Harper’s Weekly, The Nation, The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, Dissent, Lingua Franca, George, and GQ. He later became executive editor of The American Prospect and editor of Guardian America.

Tomasky is the author of Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America (1996), a study of the intellectual collapse of the American left. He is also the author of Hillary’s Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign (2001), a chronicle of Hillary Clinton’s successful election to the Senate in 2000.

As of 2007, Tomasky lives with his wife in Brooklyn, New York City, New York.

THINK HE JUST MIGHT HAVE A BIAS IN HIS REPORTING?


14 posted on 10/23/2007 11:06:09 AM PDT by Grendel9
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To: NativeNewYorker
"Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool."
--Clinton presidential aide Paul Begala, July 1998

Some of us do not have short memories.

15 posted on 10/23/2007 11:07:29 AM PDT by Brian Mosely (A government is a body of people -- usually notably ungoverned)
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To: rhombus

You mean like the right of the poresident to order the IRS to launch investigations of private citizens? Or like the right to interfere with senate investigations? Or do you mean like the right to invite communist foreign dignitaries to spend the night at the white house for a nominal donation to the presidential library? Oh, I know...Like the president shouldn’t have the right to have terrorists visit the whitehouse in an attempt to negotiate peace with Israel. Oooh, I got it! The president should not have the right to have sexual relations with interns or subordinates.

Yea. Go Hillary, let’s pull back some of those powers that past presidents have usurped.


16 posted on 10/23/2007 11:07:45 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (No to nitwit jesters with a predisposition of self importance and unqualified political opinions!)
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To: NativeNewYorker

ROFLOLOL!!!


17 posted on 10/23/2007 11:08:20 AM PDT by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!!)
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To: NativeNewYorker
Hillary Clinton would launch a policy review as president with an eye towards giving up some of the executive powers accumulated by George Bush

And if anyone believes this, I have some ocean front property in Kansas to sell them.

18 posted on 10/23/2007 11:08:25 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Lee'sGhost

BS! Will never happen, unless it ends up granting MORE powers to the president.

Exactly, she won’t rest until executive power becomes exclusive power. We have our own Evita Peron wantabe.


19 posted on 10/23/2007 11:10:27 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: MEGoody
And Alice saw that in the looking-glass world, everything was reversed. Up was down, in was out, and to 'give up' power was to indeed make it greater...


20 posted on 10/23/2007 11:11:41 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The Democrat Party: radical Islam's last hope)
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