(AP) "Is Bush Overreaching?"

[originalpckelly]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060513/ap_on_go_pr_wh/presidential_stretch

WASHINGTON -
President Bush has made broad use of his executive powers: authorizing warrantless wiretaps, collecting telephone records on millions of Americans, holding suspected terrorists overseas without legal protections. His administration even is considering using the military to patrol the U.S. border.
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Congress is on notice from the president that he will not enforce parts of legislation he believes interfere with his constitutional authority.

These are extraordinary times, for sure, and the president says he is acting to safeguard the country. But Democrats and some Republicans, along with human rights activists and legal scholars, suggest Bush has gone too far in stretching presidential powers.

"I do think the president has pushed the envelope," said Georgetown University political scientist Stephen J. Wayne. "He seems so determined for another act of terrorism not to occur on his watch that he has forgotten the constitutional protections that most Americans value as highly as they value their security."

[kenny blankenship]

1. Is the AP a year or two behind the curve?

Does a fat kid love cake?

[rocktivity]

2. Too bad this doesn't qualify as Lake Breaking News

It would be the front runner for my "You Call This NEWS?" award. I guess I'll just have to settle for "You call this news ANALYSIS?" Bush has been overreaching since he stole his first election--and the AP has been one of its main cheerleaders?

:eyes:
rocknation

[reichstag911]

3. He overreached...

...when he entered the first grade! }(

[spuddonna]

4. Yes! He dang near threw his back out on that last Gannon reach-around...

oh wait... nevermind! :evilgrin:

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5. What do you think?

In projecting his powers widely, Bush has made extensive use of statements that accompany the signing of a bill into law. These statements claim a presidential prerogative not to enforce parts of the legislation that he deems to encroach on executive authority. He has issued hundreds of such statements.

Among provisions he has challenged is a requirement to give detailed reports to Congress about his use of the Patriot Act and about a ban on torture.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Remember when it was a high crime and misdemeanor

for Bill Clinton to ask Vernon Jordon to find Monica a job?

I would say illegally wiretapping the whole country is a little worse then that.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Yeah. When he reached for Stalingra..er, Baghdad.