{"id":9665,"date":"2006-05-16T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/05\/16\/stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one.html"},"modified":"2006-05-16T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T20:16:13","slug":"stop_me_if_youv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/stop_me_if_youv.html","title":{"rendered":"Stop me if you’ve heard this one"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the anything-but-Left-Wing Cato Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Remember when conservatives wrote books with titles like Absolute Power: the Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department<\/em>? Those were the days. But here\u2019s a new selection from the Conservative Book Club: Can She Be Stopped? Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless\u2026<\/em> What? I don\u2019t know, but that\u2019s the title of a new book from John Podhoretz of NRO and the New York Post.<\/p>\n

What I do know is that if Hillary is the next president, she\u2019ll be able to lay claim to a number of vast, extraconstitutional powers championed by right-wingers like, uh, John Podhoretz. Among those powers is the \u201dinherent executive authority\u201d to wiretap at will and, perhaps, to seize American citizens on American soil and hold them without charges for the duration of the war on terror \u2014 in other words, forever. <\/p>\n

The \u201990s weren\u2019t that long ago. And I remember a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over misused FBI Files and suspicious IRS audits. Over the last four and a half years, many of the same wailers and gnashers have cheer-led the concentration of unreviewable power in the executive branch, as if George W. Bush would be the last president ever to wield that power. And now, lo and behold, there\u2019s the mistress of Travelgate warming up in the on-deck circle. Join me in a bitter chuckle. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Payback is a bitch. And payback based on the precedent you set is even worse.<\/p>\n

I’m not certain Hillary is such a shoo-in — but whoever gets in is going to reap both the benefits and the costs of this prsent administration. Hopefully the nation will get the Executive we need, not the one we deserve.<\/p>\n

(via Les<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the anything-but-Left-Wing Cato Blog: Remember when conservatives wrote books with titles like Absolute Power: the Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department? Those were the days. 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