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Incidentally, in case anyone interprets this as support for McCain/Palin, know this: I would sooner have my head chewed off by a gila monster than vote for McCain. I’m voting for Obama. I’m pissed off that he voted for that crazy unconstitutional FISA bill, but I also realize that he is doing what he needs to do politically to win. He said he was going to take his lumps for that vote, and I’m giving him his lumps. And while I think Biden will be a competent VP and has strong and well-earned foreign policy credentials, I also find him to be something of a blowhard and I really do think he is looking like that strange Agnew-Byrd morph.

It will be curious to see if President Obama is willing to give up any of the “unitary executive” power grabs that the Bush Administration has taken for the past 8 years. My guess is that he’ll keep as much power as possible in the executive branch. He’s never going to say, “Now that I’m the executive-in-chief, I’m going to reduce the power of the executive branch.”  That’s just the nature of Presidents. Some of it will also be payback.