Naked Authoritarianism

I've said before that I'm not exaggerating when I claim that the Bush administration is an enemy of the Constitution. This morning, Tony Snow came out and flat out confirmed it.

In talking to ABC News, Snow said, "The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress in fact doesn't have oversight ability."

Over the past week, the media has been talking about a "looming Constitutional crisis" over the USA thing. But that's not true. The crisis isn't looming. As Glenn Greenwald has pointed out time and time again - it's here. It's been here for years. We've had a President who straight up doesn't believe in the Constitutional limits imposed on his office. It's no coincidence that this is the same philosophy espoused by the Nixon administration - this broad view of Executive power, backed almost entirely by the title Commander in Chief and supported via the concept of Executive Privilege.

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