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The Semi-sovereign Presidency - The Bush Administration's Strategy For Governing Without Congress (Hardcover)
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The Semi-sovereign Presidency - The Bush Administration's Strategy For Governing Without Congress (Hardcover)
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In The Semi-Sovereign Presidency, Capitol Hill insider Charles
Tiefer shows how George Bush used the executive office to
circumvent Congress, thwart official Washington, and confound the
public will. Even Bush partisans may be surprised to discover the
president's unprecedented use of executive signing statements to
modify or, in effect, abrogate acts of Congress-even popular,
bipartisan efforts like the 1991 Civil Rights Act; his
commissioning of the "Quayle Council" to derail regulatory
legislation such as the Clean Air Act of 1990; and his catapulting
of the National Security Council into foreign policy prominence
outstripping that of the Departments of Defense and State. As
Tiefer details for the first time here, "Iraqgate," the hidden
courtship of Saddam Hussein prior to the Gulf War, is perhaps the
most dramatic example of Bush's executive fiat-a relationship
conducted by way of Bush National Security Directives and similarly
obscured from the public eye. Bush chose an essentially negative
approach to governing partly because he was unwilling to engage
Congress on matters of principle head to head and was equally
unwilling to make his principles public-addressing himself to the
nation as his predecessor had so effectively done. But, as Tiefer
persuasively argues, it was Bush's belief in the sovereignty of
executive power-an almost monarchical conception of the
presidency-that was his primary modus operandi and ultimately his
downfall. Bush and his approach to power are interesting not just
to students and scholars of the presidency but to all citizens
concerned about the country and its leadership.
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