Saturday, January 17, 2004
Pre-Emptive Court Packing
and The Bush Doctrine
NY Times: Bush Seats Judge, Bypassing Senate Democrats0 comments
POW!
The Bush Doctrine comes home.
And our proud America is in grave peril.
Now do you have any doubts about who is running this country?
And who fully intends to keep it?
Is our legislative process giving George W. Bush agita? Is he just not gettng his way fast enough?
Then, yes, by all means, he should just drop this silly charade of a working relationship with this pesky Congress, show his real teeth, and just shove the damned agenda down their throats and let them yowl.
This is the domestic equivalent of blowing off the United Nations and having your Big Guns roll into Baghdad, simply because YOU WANT TO, with no particularly legitimate, good reason, and with no one who can tell you "No!"
This is raw, naked power.
Exercised in the halls of our government in Washington, DC.
The self-interested, looney right has been screaming for over a week, as they've continued to misinterpret and mis-state the MoveOn.org ad contest submission that cross-referenced Bush with Adolf Hitler.
Well, folks, the White House has taken the ground right out from under what little foundation these screamers might have had; this high-handed judicial appointment is as close to a Hitlerian move as any one could imagine on American soil.
"We don' neeed no stinkin' Senate..."
Any hope of a bipartisan effort on any agenda or issue of benefit to the American people is now utterly shattered.
This imperious move has forever stamped George W. Bush's place in history as: The Man Who Would Be King.
What we as Americans have always known as The Republican Party has a long, proud and storied history of service to our country.
Today, this once-proud political party has met the same fate as those companies which had well established brand identities, only to be acquired merely for access to those marketable brand names—which, of course, now lack any semblance of the formerly popular products themselves.
We find our historic GOP also is merely a shell of its former self, "Republican" in name only, completely untethered to its history as the Party of Lincoln, or Taft or Eisenhower or Dirkson or Rockefeller or Dole. It has been corrupted by the barbarians from the far right, until it now stands wretchedly as a worldwide symbol of hate and greed and power.
The National Socialist Party was once merely a political party, as well.
Critics of these new Republicans are not responsible for the growing, eerie similarity between these two parties. The driving forces within this new GOP have fully taken care of establishing it.
Legislatively, THIS IS WAR.
A war we did not seek; but, a war that now must be engaged and won.
Bush has been accused of polarizing the country. We may well have settled for that. But, now he has cracked the fissure as wide as at any time in our history since the Civil War.
Henceforth, any Democrat who so much as has lunch in this White House should be summarily cashiered out of the Democratic Party. Bush has left no wiggle room for the Repubicrats—the Max Baucuses, the Zell Millers, the John Breaux of Capitol Hill. Bush's administration has fully polarized this environment.
"With us or against us?" he says. All too clearly.
The terms of engagement have been established.
There is no going back.
The historic days of balanced, centrist, moderated viewpoints in an environment of collegial give-and-take in Congress between men and women of good faith—the days of brokering compromises for the Commonweal—are in total eclipse.
Every Democratic legislative effort must be geared to limiting each step this administration takes towards leading the U.S. down the road to totalitarian rule. Bush and his troops have the legislative and judicial numbers. But, even if a truly American legislative position can no longer be successful, at least this new Republican legislative onslaught can be slowed down, hobbled and/or crippled, so these forces of hate can do as little further damage to Americans as possible.
Our Republic, our very Nation, is in extreme danger.
With this move by George W. Bush, it is now time for the Democratic Party to lead.
As it has in other moments of peril in its 300-year history, Our Nation calls its citizens to service to defend the Union against threats both domestic and foreign. Currently, it is the Democrats who are called. Are they up to the task?
We can only pray to God that they are.
posted by Gotham 2:05 PM
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