reason.com - 12/20/2008
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Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who supports an auto industry bailout, nevertheless agrees that President Bush's unilateral loan plan is illegal and unconstitutional. This shows I'm right ! Well, maybe not, but it's an example of a man standing up for a principle ...
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ROBERT REICH stands tall for separation of powers: “Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert R…
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ROBERT REICH stands tall for separation of powers: “Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who supports an auto industry bailout, nevertheless agrees that President Bush’s unilateral loan plan is illegal and unconstitutional. . . . it’s an example of a man standing up for a principle even when the principle is inconvenient. Too bad Obama couldn’t muster similar courage.”
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Columnist George Will on Sunday criticized what our own Jacob Sullum has been hammering on about in recent days: that President Bush's executive decision to bail out the Big 2.5 automakers is an(other) affront to the constitutional separation of powers. Here's Will: The expansion of government entails an increasingly swollen executive branch and the steady enlargement of executive discretion. This inevitably means the eclipse of Congress and attenuation of the rule of law. For decades, imperatives of wars hot and cold, and the sprawl of the regulatory state, have enlarged the executive ...
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