Who’s Buying This? October 12, 2007
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Senator Hillary Clinton said yesterday that if she is elected president, she intends to roll back President Bush’s expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put his own interpretation on bills passed by Congress or to claim authority to disobey them entirely.
“I think you have to restore the checks and balances and the separation of powers, which means reining in the presidency,” Clinton told the Boston Globe’s editorial board.
This coming from the wife of a man who issued executive orders to implement legislation that Congress wanted no part of. Then again, HRC probably thinks that if she becomes President, she will have a Democratic Congress, so she thinks that Congress would poodle along with anything she wants, making executive abuses unnecessary.
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