Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Chutzpah

At what point does sheer unmitigated shameless gall (chutzpah?) turn into fascism?

Here's our U.S. Deputy Attorney General, the #2 official in the country in charge of safeguarding our Constitutional Rule of Law, saying in Congressional testimony, for heaven's sake, that:

“The President is always right.”


What's funny is that you could actually make a good case for the opposite.

President Bush is always wrong.


If not yet fascism, John Dean makes the case for authoritarianism. And per this Bush profile written three prescient years ago, it all makes sense. Wild man turned bossman, power in the hands of one least equipt to wield it wisely. And all those he has assembled around him all march to his authoritarian beat.

But no one else has to.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why not put an end to all this controversy? Why doesn't the White House sponsor a constitutional amendment that will clearly establish two things:

1) Bush as King of America (or maybe even God of the World) with Cheney as Queen and Rummy as Court Jester.

2) Abolish the Constitution (it certainly isn't doing us any good and it apparently is hindering the war against foreign enemies who would only use it against us)

With that settled, we Americans could finally stop being distracted from the important things, such as where is that cute little TomKat baby hiding?

Mark Netter said...

Great, Bush is el Presidente for Life!!