<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9ba0feba-327d-48dc-8e3e-165ef74c42b5/BF12D151-6AA6-48ED-931C-6BAF089F89F8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://reverendmark.com/weblog/2007/10/09/cheney-plotted-bushs-imperial-presidency-thirty-years-ago/" href="http://reverendmark.com/weblog/2007/10/09/cheney-plotted-bushs-imperial-presidency-thirty-years-ago/" style="font-size: 11px;">reverendmark.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://reverendmark.com/weblog/2007/10/09/cheney-plotted-bushs-imperial-presidency-thirty-years-ago/"><DIV class="postcontent"> <H4>Charlie Savage: Cheney Plotted Bush’s Imperial Presidency ‘Thirty Years Ago’</H4> <P>The Bush administration has long held that President Bush’s expanded executive power is justified due to 9/11. “I believe in a strong, robust executive authority and I think that the world we live in demands it,” claimed Vice President Cheney in 2005.</p> <P>But in his new book, <EM>Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy</EM>, Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage reveals that Cheney has been on a thirty-year quest to implement his views of unfettered executive power.</p> <P> <A class="more-link" href="http://reverendmark.com/weblog/2007/10/09/cheney-plotted-bushs-imperial-presidency-thirty-years-ago/#more-81">Read the rest of this entry »</A></p> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BF12D151-6AA6-48ED-931C-6BAF089F89F8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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