Of course that flies in the face of the constitution, because our basic framework was created to make it almost impossible to authorize an offensive war (for better or worse is up to interpretation).

While I don’t agree with what Cheney views as to what’s in this country’s best interest, truth be told, I agree with Cheney’s philosophy.

Without even considering the information gap between the public and the government, there’s a lot more stupid people then there are informed individuals. And I’d prefer that the closest that Cletis the One-Toothed-Yokel ever gets to making policy decisions that affect me is by voting for others to act on his behalf.

sigh. Note to self: No commenting after second whiskey.

Third parties do not work in the U.S., but periodically room is created for a new party when one of the two majors self-immolates. That is how the Republicans came to replace the Whigs, when the Whigs self-destructed over the question of slavery. I really think that process is exactly what we are witnessing now. But to quote myself:

“The only remaining suspense is to see what alien-like creature of hell will erupt through the GOP chest cavity as it convulses in its final death throes.”

It will take a lot to screw things up, but with the exception of the quandry over Clinton and Obama, just about everything else breaks in their favor. If they do nothing, they don’t hurt their chances of winning; if they do something, who knows what happens after it gets spun.

And this is why a) the Dems somehow always screw it up and lose, and b) are often no better then the Republicans.

It takes some freaking leadership, and as much as it pains me to say thing, we aren’t getting any.

Gore accurately states that this radical corporatist ‘faction’ (which I would call a corporatist Empire) does not even recognize that the concept of a ‘public interest’ even exists — and Cheney proves, on queue, that he does not think the ‘public’ should have any impact on government decisions.

There is no ‘public interest’ in an empire, and Cheney asserts that in his corporatist Empire there should be no public input or influence.

This pretty much sums up the belief in empire instead of democracy.

When will people realize that when Bush and Cheney were appointed to office this country suffered a very subtle Coup d’etat – and it will take decades to undo what they have done – yet they go unpunished. I can only hope that the “plan” is to get Bush and his posse out of office, then start the investigations and jail sentences without having to worry about any pardon’s being handed down by the “boy wonder”.