Originally Posted by
striker42
The thing that scares me the most about Hillary is I have no doubt she'd continue the accretion of power to the executive. Out of all the candidates, I get the feeling that she's the most dangerous in the regard. She has both the desire for that power and the knowledge of how to gather it to her.
The growth of executive power is something that hasn't gotten near enough attention. It doesn't even matter which party the president belongs to. Presidents from both sides have seem equally intent on expanding the executive. A new president takes the ceiling of what the last president got away with and sets it as their floor. Under Bush you had the unitary executive. Under Obama you have his use of "setting priorities" as a way of selectively enforcing law. I shudder to think of what Clinton would do.