Imperial Presidency and Subversion of American Democracy 1/2

October 12, 2007
http://www.democracynow.org/
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy

Charlie Savage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the Boston Globe. He has written extensively about President Bush's signing statements and other White House efforts to expand executive branch secrecy and unchecked power. Warrantless wiretapping is one part of this story. Savage has just published a book charting the means the Bush administration devised to circumvent laws and expand Presidential authority. It's called "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy." Charlie Savage now joins us in the firehouse studio here in New York.
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[bboucharde]

The Bush administration has been a geopolitical and financial disaster that followed a problematic but more competent Clinton presidency. We must establish some oversight and controls to prevent another reign of incompetence, arrogance, aggression, and mismanagement in Washington.

Congress has not done the job! Another 8 years of what we live under now could finish us.

[mcalien24]

if we dont impeach now, we wont have the precedent, and we will never impeach a president again.

[jigabyte101]

Wasn't Clinton Impeached? hmmm I guess as long as the Senate thought it was all right then we didn't need to kick him out.

[ReDDDgo]

Why the USA the most hated country

/watch?v=9vN7IlnKi28

[powrxplor69]

This is very disturbing....I'm reading his book & it's just incredible how it's all being done....again disturbing

[enotdetcelfer]

FUCK democracy. I want a nation of Laws that protect my Rights no matter the whim of the majority. The idea that people can go law crazy to restrict it's fellow citizens is the whole reason we are in this fucking mess.

[bboucharde]

patrickhenry1774,

Yes, I am getting a lot more active. I have to make the time to do it. Bush-Cheney have awakened a populist sleeping giant.

[patrickhenry1774]

Its called the Constitution and angry vigilant citizens

[stewartcolbert11]

was one vote short of impeachment. In Clinton's case, the House voted to impeach, but only 45 Senators voted to remove him from office, short of the 67, or two-thirds majority needed to convict. The precedent for impeachment is there, we simply need to establish a precedent for removing a president from office. Had Nixon not resigned before impeachment hearings in the House after the release of the Pentagon Papers, we might well have established said precedent after the Watergate scandal.

[stewartcolbert11]

Let's not forget there's a difference between impeachment and removal from office. Under the Constitution, the House of Representatives has the sole power of impeachment, and the Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments and remove an elected official form office. A two-thirds majority (67 Senators) is needed to convict. Abraham Lincoln's VP, Andrew Johnson, and more recently, Bill Clinton, both faced impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives. In Johnson's case, the House

[KARStarla]

TOOLS (to spy) and FLEXIBILITY (to detain without cause and torture)?

Have you guys seen WHO the TSA is listing AS terrorists in the U.S? Its OWN CITIZENS such as ANTI WAR folks, PEACE Activists, constitutionalists, journalists and reporters. Check this out at the UCLA who confirms this as true. The list is A MILLION LONG and growing.

Watch "Naomi Wolf The End of America" SHE TOO is on the list watch her at the Ron Paul Rally (no the media didnt cover it)