In a bold move, President Bush has given the White House increased control in regulating public health, the environment, civil rights, privacy and safety, the New York Times reported on Monday (Columbia Law School Professor Peter L. Strauss is quoted in the article). The White House would have a political appointee in each agency making sure that the President's priorities are met.
The move obviously comes as the result of Bush's loss of power with a new Democratic Congress, and represents Bush's efforts to regain some of this power. Increases of executive power by such rare means scare us here at The Lion and the Donkey, as they appear to be attempts to circumvent the checks and balances established in the Constitution. In an administration that has already proved that adhering to the Constitution is optional, who knows what could come of this?
1.30.2007
Power to the people - I mean, Executive Branch!
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To me, this story, along with the State of the Union, reveals the President's domestic ambition to return to the Reagan years when big business ruled, government spending was frowned upon, and the little guy got screwed. The president knows that Brownback and the Evangical camp is hopeless in '08 and therefore is using these tactics to begin to put his eggs in the basket of the next potential "Reagan Presidency", Rudy Guilliani. Hopefully this time the the rest of the country wont miss the memo, and will put and end to this madness.
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