Mark A.R. Kleiman teaches public policy at UCLA and edits the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. His book, When Brute Force Fails: Strategy for Crime Control, will be published this summer by Princeton University Press.
... to a claim of dictatorial powers. Now he says that he can spend appropriated funds for purposes that the Congress has specifically forbidden. Are there any actual conservatives left to protest?
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mark, why do you want to write about important stuff like the Constitution and separation of powers when you could be over on the Huffpo front page gossiping about hillary and obama?
This is conservatism taken to an extreme. A true-believer, a conservative ideologue, will never, ever admit the President is wrong. This is characteristic of the 30% of the electorate who will support Bush (even if he abandons his chain saw and actually helps build the mega-bases in the Mideast). Perhaps that is his and Cheney's retirement plan. Instead of Habitat for Humanity the plan could be called Habitat for Conservatives.
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mark, why do you want to write about important stuff like the Constitution and separation of powers when you could be over on the Huffpo front page gossiping about hillary and obama?
This is conservatism taken to an extreme. A true-believer, a conservative ideologue, will never, ever admit the President is wrong. This is characteristic of the 30% of the electorate who will support Bush (even if he abandons his chain saw and actually helps build the mega-bases in the Mideast). Perhaps that is his and Cheney's retirement plan. Instead of Habitat for Humanity the plan could be called Habitat for Conservatives.
Remind me again why we have an opposition party. And to think I made fun of Ralph Nader. Are any third parties out there paying attention?
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