Addendum

I got an email last night from Gene Healy at Cato, writing to take me to task for claiming his position on the Bush administration has shifted because Bush is about to leave office and a Democrat might win. In this post, my purpose was to respond to Healy's article in the recent issue of "Reason" on modern presidency. In the article I noted that a number of conservatives had begun to come out of the woodwork in criticizing the Bush administration's "abuse" of power. Because this was lumped into the same article, it gave the appearance that I lumped Healy into the same category of these other conservatives, which was not my intent. As I noted in the post, Healy and Cato issued the same sort of criticisms at the end of the Clinton administration as they do now at the end of the Bush administration. But because it wasn't clear, I apologize to Mr. Healy and reproduce his selective bibliography of articles and postings taking the current Bush administration to task. Let me also add my thanks for stopping by this blog to read and respond. I hadn't realized anybody did this! OK, the bibliography:

"Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6330 ," by Gene Healy and Timothy Lynch, White Paper, May 1, 2006.

"Stay What Course? http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5164 ," by Gene Healy and Justin Logan, Reason (Online), November 2, 2005

"Geena Davis Is Not My President http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5140 ," Reason (Online), October 18, 2005

"What of 'Posse Comitatus'? http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5115 ," Akron Beacon Journal, October 7, 2005

"Domestic Militarization: A Disaster in the Making http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5074 ," Cato.org, September 27, 2005

"Jose Padilla: Constitutional Unperson? http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5043" Miami Herald, September 24, 2005

"Bush's Tortuous Choice http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3991 ," Cato.org, July 15, 2005

"We're at War not with a State but an Armed Ideology http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=2828 ," Star Tribune, September 12, 2004

"Can the President Imprison Anyone, Forever? ," Cato.org, April 28, 2004

"Nourishing the enemy http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4563 ," South China Morning Post, April 19, 2004

"Deployed in the USA? http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=2576 ," Cato.org, March 19, 2004

"The Era of Big Government Conservatism http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4564 ," Cato.org, February 1, 2004

"Requiem for the Powell Doctrine http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3209 ," Chicago Tribune, August 11, 2003

"Remake the World in America's Image? http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3186" Cato.org, August 2, 2003

"The Case of the Missing WMDs http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3132," Cato.org, June 19, 2003

"Why Hussein Will Not Give Weapons of Mass Destruction to Al Qaeda http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3017," Cato.org, March 5, 2003

"Border Security Is No Job for the Military http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6319," Los Angeles Times, February 5, 2003

"Beware of Total Information Awareness http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=2959," Cato.org, January 20, 2003

"War by Legal Loophole http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3593," Cato.org, September 12, 2002

"Misguided Mission for Military http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6322," Washington Times, July 31, 2002

"Volunteer Voyeurs? http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3550," Cato.org, July 29, 2002

"War with Iraq: Who Decides? http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3405," Cato.org, February 26, 2002