JANUARY 16 20091. The Dead-Enders: Why Two Bush Appointees Are Refusing to
Leave
2. Why We Have to Look Back
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1. The Dead-Enders: Why Two Bush
Appointees Are Refusing to Leave
by Scott Horton for the Daily Beast
....The political appointees present Obama and his new attorney
general, Eric Holder, with a different headache. By tradition, political
appointees serve at the pleasure of the president, and when a new
president comes to office those who held their commissions from his
predecessor tender their resignations. This year, however, Buchanan
and Martin appear girded to make a last stand like Japanese soldiers
who never got word that the war was over.
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2. Why We Have to Look Back
By John Conyers Jr. for the Washington Post
....This week, I released "Reining in the Imperial Presidency," a 486-
page report detailing the abuses and excesses of the Bush
administration and recommending steps to address them. Arthur
Schlesinger Jr. popularized the term "imperial presidency" in the
1970s to describe an executive who had assumed more power than
the Constitution allows and circumvented the checks and balances
fundamental to our three-branch system of government. Until recently,
the Nixon administration seemed to represent a singular embodiment
of the idea. Unfortunately, it is clear that the threat of the imperial
presidency lives on and, indeed, reached new heights under George
W. Bush.
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| Reining In the Imperial Presidency a 486 page report (2,344K) detailing the abuses and excesses of the Bush administration. <link to file> |
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