In this interview, Ron Paul gives a lucid account of the current manufactured crisis over the debt ceiling.

That's important, but the best moment comes at the end when Neil Cavuto asks him whether he would respond to a call by President Obama for him to come to his office.

Paul responds, "No, I would be pretty annoyed" and then goes on to explain that the Constitution gives the power of the purse to the Congress, not the chief executive.

Perhaps the president should go visit the congressmen, and not the other way around, he says.

"I don't like a very, very powerful presidency," he suggests.

What a refreshing change from the days when the Bush crowd was pushing the idea of a "unitary executive," i.e. one with what amounted to infinite power.

That was the most profoundly unconstitutional and unconservative idea possible, yet the pseudo-conservatives of talk radio all bought into it.

Here legal scholar Tom Woods debunks the most blatantly fraudulent of these closet liberals.

And here's an interesting discussion of how the unitary executive theory works against conservative ends in that fight by Arizona to enforce immigration law.