Hillary to check Executive Power
Senator Hillary Clinton said yesterday that if she is elected president, she intends to roll back President Bush's expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put his own interpretation on bills passed by Congress or to claim authority to disobey them entirely.
"I think you have to restore the checks and balances and the separation of powers, which means reining in the presidency," Clinton told the Boston Globe's editorial board.
The words sound nice, and she may even be telling the truth, though I’m not that trusting of any politician and particularly one who gives the kind of professional political answers that fail to actually answer tough questions like Hillary does.
In any case, even if she is being 100% truthful in her willingness to rollback many of the excesses of the Bush administration, it won’t be a total rollback, and Executive power will still be far more advanced than it was prior to Bush taking office.
Bet the right will be real happy to see that power in her hands.
