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The most amazing part about all of this is that these are 2 Bush/Cheney operatives so gravely concerned about an executive above the law, unconstrained by other institutions.

That''s *exactly* what Bush/Cheney created. Google John Yoo, Article II, David Addington, etc.
All this rhetoric about an Imperial Presidency, a lawless executive, a White House unconstrained by law & ethics was the standard liberal critique for how Cheney & friends exploited the War on Terror to place themselves above the law. And it was accurate.

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Indeed, both parties have spent decades constructing a model of an executive branch that has few to no meaningful constraints - including the law and Constitution.

And now they're acting shocked that *what they created* has come to fruition washingtonpost.com/posteverything…
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