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...Graham shows, this isn't a Republican-Democrat issue. It's a very basic one. A President, Democrat or Republican, has every right to act unilaterally at times to defend the country. But a democracy cannot work if the person who is deputed to execute the laws exempts himself from them when he feels like it. Forget the imperial presidency. This is more like a monarchical one. America began by rejecting the claims of one King George. It's disturbing to think we may now be quietly installing a second one. Andrew Sullivan's blog, the Daily Dish...
...Alito’s disavowal of CAP didn’t mollify Kennedy. The Democrat cited “CAP’s troubling opposition to equal educational opportunity for women, minorities, and the disabled” in a December letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa. And Kennedy raised the issue again at Alito’s confirmation hearings last week...
...spokesman for John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV ’61 said he did not know whether the West Virginia Democrat ever belonged to one of the secretive social groups. A spokesman for Senator David Vitter ’82 did not return a phone message inquiring whether the Louisiana Republican ever had final club ties...
...Representative to take an all-expenses-paid trip to Pago Pago on behalf of the Alaskan Coconut Packing Council and do virtually no work upon arrival. Lobbyists proposed, arranged and paid for those trips--then went along to chalk up quality time. Now, under almost every proposal, Republican and Democrat, the junkets would be history. Chance of passage: 99%. Likely work-around: lawmakers will try to carve out an exemption for "educational" trips sponsored by policy groups and friendly foreign countries...
Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 has severed his ties to the all-male Owl Club, a spokeswoman for the eighth-term Massachusetts Democrat told The Crimson today...