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The Crossed Pond » Ron Paul Co-option Watch — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:02:10 +0000

[...] The Right’s Field contends that there’s less here than meets the eye (and I agree with them): Later in the interview, he says he agrees with the Bush Administration on �issues of surveillance,� which after all was what Watergate was about. Plus, he tries hard to frame Congress� power as solely through the funding mechanism, while saying vaguely that �All the executive authority rests in the president.� In Thompson�s view, if the Congress disagrees with something the executive does, they can refuse to fund it. Of course, this isn�t Congress� only power, they write the laws and have the explicit power to declare war. But Thompson tries to elide that basic Constitutional reading. [...]

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