It has been obvious for quite some time that the Bush theory of government is that we should agree to let him do whatever he wants, without regard to the consequences, and without regard for any of the frailties of the common man -- ie, decency, observance of the law, and that sort of thing. These are simply not applicable to Bush, in his view, nor to anyone who works for him. Were the Strategic Defense Initiative half as flexible or all-encompassing as Bush's view of executive privilege, we'd be safe from any foreseeable attack forever.
Thus it wasn't too much of a surprise to read, in yesterday's Washington Post, that two of Bush's minions, dragged to a Congressional inquisition, essentially told them to go into a dark room and amuse themselves with farm animals. They were the classic bad boys of high school smirking at the substitute teacher, their scorn and contempt for the legislators perfectly and totally obvious as they did everything but defecate on the desk as a way of indicating their opinion of the value of the process.
And these are the people that Bush likes to have around. Can he be any more vile, more dismissive of the congress? Let alone, to the people they represent? As it is obvious that they'll continue to beg and cower for his approval even as he's -- to use the classic Monty Python phrase -- farting in their general direction, and they will not actively pursue any sort of disciplinary activity -- we have only to wait and watch. Any other president would be a lame duck, this late in his career and with such a dismal approval rating. Bush likely regards it as the opening bell for 'all bets are off'. What has he got to lose?
After all - what's the Congress going to do? Take swift, decisive action? Be bold? Hah. Fat chance.
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I gave up expecting anything of congress. They're the only entity with an approval rating lower than Bush's.
Ah, but look at it this way. It took them the collective efforts of 535 people to get that rating. Bush got his all by himself.
Congress' problem is that they despise the concept of compromise, and they love the idea of pork. They're willing to do the former if they get huge slabs of the latter. And no one gets power until they've been there long enough to get fully saturated by that foul aroma.
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