[billbears]

Why? By helping to maintain and preserve the separation of powers laid out in The Constitution?

LOL!! You're kidding me right? The office of the Presidency is so far over its Constitutional boundries it's not even funny. Go back and read the powers the President has outlined in the Constitution word for word and you'll see the executive branch hasn't been following it for over a hundred years. I like Bush, I really do. But what he's done lately, all in the name of security, is an affront to the ideals the Founding Fathers set forth for that office. Under the Constitution, most of the power was in the legislative branch with one of the houses not elected by the general public. Well, since we've thrown that away, might as well just start naming kings now and save me the hassle and the ulcers from reading about politicians that probably haven't even read the Constitution (besides selected Amendments) in the past 30 years

[stainlessbanner]

"I have an obligation to make sure that the presidency remains robust...."

Excuse me, Pres. Bush this ain't a Folger's Coffee commercial!

[callisto]

Imho I think Bush is out to reinforce his 'perrogative' not to give his daily intel briefings to Congress. The Dems are hungry like wolves right now and would like to have the Administration turn over not only past briefings, but future ones also. And we saw how well that worked on 911 after a Congressman told the media that our intel had been listening to Bin Laden, et al and they stopped using their satellite phones or whatever medium we were monitoring.

[Scholastic]

thank you!