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-- engage to work for change;
-- cooperate with other nations, don't exploit them;-- consider eight years of damage and serious problems built up over decades;
-- demand accountability for wrongdoing; and
-- "encourage the American people to take actions that are absolutely necessary. Now."
Presidential Power Grab and How to Repair It
George Bush's "attorneys openly argued before a congressional committee that the president (may) violate any law until the Supreme Court specifically rules in favor of it." He used signing statements to rewrite them, issued one-man rule Executive Orders, and unconstitutionally usurped "unitary executive" powers that Chalmers Johnson called a "bald-faced assertion of presidential supremacy....dressed up in legalistic mumbo jumbo."
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