{"id":4852,"date":"2010-02-11T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2010-02-11T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:30:29","slug":"the-presidents-foreign-and-domestic-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4852","title":{"rendered":"The Disparity Between the President&#8217;s Foreign and Domestic Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2010\/02\/our-strange-constitution.php\">Matt Yglesias makes an extremely important and fundamental observation<\/a> regarding our system of government:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the President wants to do something like implement a domestic policy proposal he campaigned on\u2014charge polluters for global warming emissions, for example\u2014he faces a lot of hurdles. He needs majority support on a House committee or three. He also needs majority support on a Senate committee or three. Then he needs to get a majority in the full House of Representatives. And then he needs to de facto needs a 60 percent supermajority in the Senate. And then it\u2019s all subject to judicial review.<\/p>\n<p>But if Scooter Libby obstructs justice, the president has an un-reviewable, un-checkable power to offer him a pardon or clemency. If Bill Clinton wants to bomb Serbia, then Serbia gets bombed. If George W Bush wants to hold people in secret prisons and torture them, then tortured they shall be. And if Barack Obama wants to issue a kill order on someone or other, then the order goes out. And if Congress actually wants to remove a president from office, it faces extremely high barriers to doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you approve of this sort of executive power in the security domain, it\u2019s a bit of a weird mismatch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Yglesias makes an extremely important and fundamental observation regarding our system of government: If the President wants to do something like implement a domestic policy proposal he campaigned on\u2014charge polluters for global warming emissions, for example\u2014he faces a lot of hurdles. He needs majority support on a House committee or three. He also needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[367,38,4,458],"tags":[782],"class_list":["post-4852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security","category-political-philosophy","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-matt-yglesias"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1gg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4854,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions\/4854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}