>>Oh boy, this is going to get fun if a Dem wins the White House in '08 and is given all the executuive powers that Bush has carved out for himself... The Repubs are gonna be cryin' like babies and sayin' stuff like, "Man, this governemnt is corrupt and _____________ is a crook."

I don't see how the Congressional Repubs have so gleefully handed over so many tools for Bush to put in his personal tool box, a tool box which eill be left for the next president...

And if it Hillary Clinton, the Repubs are going to go bomkers at having given up so much authority... Maybe she will round them all up, waterboard 'um and send them off to Guantanimo??? I mean, given the current laws that the Repubs have put on the books she will have that authority...<<

Sure. The pubs are stupid people. Remember the line item veto fiasco? The pubs pushed for that endlessly--endlessly. They couldn't shut up about the need for a line item veto. It made no sense because Clinton was in office. Why would they want to give him that power?? Finally, they got their line item veto enacted. Then Congress sent a bill to Clinton and the pubs attached a bunch of crap to it that Clinton opposed. So he simply stripped it all out and then signed the bill into law as the line item veto permitted him to do. All the sudden the pubs were HOWLING about that! They were livid! HOW DARE HE STRIP OUT OUR ITEMS FROM THE BILL?? WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS??? Uhh...he's a president with a line item veto power that you gave him, you dumbshits. Shortly after that, the line item veto was canned. When you're dealing with pubs, these are the kinds of geniuses you're dealing with.