Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson

The president of the United States might be many thins, but unpowerful was not among them. Many of the administrations preceding Phil's had worked very hard to expand the powers of the executive branch beyond what the framers had intended -- which campaigns made a mockery of the "strict constitutionalist" talk put out by these same people when discussing what principles the Spreme Court's justices should hold, and showed they preferred a secretive executive dictatorship to democracy, especially if the president was a puppet installed by the interested parties.

p. 51

What a nice summation of the constitutional damage done by the Bushies!