I do believe her. That's been on the chief complaints about the Bush-Cheney White House, their strong belief that the Executive Branch should be above the other governmental branches, judicial and legislative. Bush, and particularly Cheney, believe in the Executive branch having a lot more power than it needs to. This belief has been the basis for this war action in Iraq and also the motivation for the firing of the U.S. Attorneys, among other things. Executive power needs to be balanced by the other two branches and its actions far less secretive, too. I'm counting on that from the next new administration.

I wish more people here watched "Frontline" on PBS. You could learn so much about this stuff. There was a really good piece on Cheney's views on executive power just the other night. His attorney David Addington and Karl Rove have also played huge roles in these policies and actions. Bush mostly has just gone with the flow. There was another very interesting "Frontline" on tonight about the situation with Iran and how it has deteriorated in the last five years.