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Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:00 AM

Upending the Mayberry Machiavellis

It's up to Congress to save the executive branch from Bush's and Rove's radical experiment to transform it forever.
By Sidney Blumenthal

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007 06:53 PM

    What will happen at the end...

    For the sake of this thought experiment, imagine that it is December 2008 and a Democratic President-Elect and an expanded Democratic majority in both House and Senate are poised to take office. What do the Mayberry Machiavellis do when they sense their dominion is about to come to an end?

    Preemptive pardons all around? Bonfires and shredders 24/7?

    —Greg in FL Read Greg in FL's other letters

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