The Damaged Institution of the Presidency, How the Obama Administration Intends to Restore It, And What We Can Expect from New OLC Head Dawn Johnsen

As George Bush and Dick Cheney take victory laps, in order to pretend nothing is amiss because of the way they have governed for the past eight years, they are claiming to have strengthened the institution of the presidency. Needless to say, they are wrong. Even Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday, a Bush/Cheney cheerleader, had his doubts about this claim, so he asked Cheney during an exit interview, "Did you overreach? Did you end up making the presidency weaker, not stronger?" Not surprisingly, Cheney responded, "I don't think so." When Wallace then mentioned all those Supreme Court decisions overruling Bush and Cheney's actions, Cheney employed his usual hubris and, with a straight face, explained that he and Bush were correct, and the Court was wrong.

Most Americans now understand that Bush and Cheney see the world as they want to believe it to be, but few live in their alternate reality. Thankfully, it appears that the Obama transition team is very aware of the damage Bush and Cheney have done to the institution of the presidency, and they are taking appropriate actions.


EXAMPLES OF A BROKEN PRESIDENCY
Fixing the Broken Presidency In the Obama Administration
Johnsen's Thinking and Her Upcoming Confirmation Hearing

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WHAT'S A PRESDIENT TO DO> INTERPRETING THE CONSTITUTION IN THE WAKE OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S ABUSES

Obama is the bankers boy:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/13/ ... topstories

Does anybody else see whats going on here ?

or am I alone ?

What they are doing now is destroying whats left of the middle class.

It's right in our faces.

obama is spot on with his plan to restore the executive branch back to it's original design.

cheney on the otherhand, may be facing some charges of criminality down the road. he's dead frickin wrong in his assessment of the past 8 years. the only people he has on his side are the 10-15%ers of the extreme right wing of the gop which includes socalled libertarian operatives.