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Rolling Stone: Worst President In History?

Atrios has an excerpt of the article. "By contrast, the Bush administration -- in seeking to restore what Cheney, a Nixon administration veteran, h

Atrios has an excerpt of the article.

"By contrast, the Bush administration -- in seeking to restore what Cheney, a Nixon administration veteran, has called "the legitimate authority of the presidency" -- threatens to overturn the Framers' healthy tension in favor of presidential absolutism. Armed with legal findings by his attorney general (and personal lawyer) Alberto Gonzales, the Bush White House has declared that the president's powers as commander in chief in wartime are limitless. No previous wartime president has come close to making so grandiose a claim."

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