streets of baghdad 1/27/06
America:
Empire or Republic?
It's our call... at least for a while longer.
posted by Bill Simpson at 1/27/2007 10:48:00 PM
Saturday, January 27, 2007
America:
Empire or Republic?
It's our call... at least for a while longer.
3 Comments:
That's truly a sad and gruesome picture. I think the Romans tried both for a while, but they ran out of gas, which would be our problem too, I guess.
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ceasar crossed the rubicon and puff went the republic. well, actually not puff, it took a while.
i believe the bush squad, starting back in 1946 when the OSS became the CIA, crossed the american rubicon (let's call it the potomac).
they've slowly been centralizing power in the executive branch ever since. nixon's antics set them back a couple decades but they've been on the march pretty seriously since george herbert walker bush became VP in 1980. skull & bones has had a stranglehold on the presidency ever since.
bush jr. has singed an incredible number of executive orders increasing the power of the office. basically he (the president) is beyond the law. he signed one back in 03 that pretty much says: i'm the president, i can do whatever i want.
no one willingly gives power back.
congress needs to stop this iraqi surge nonsense in the bud. they need to stand up and tell bush no more money. we control the purse strings and the people say enough.
until they do this, bush, and those who follow him into the oval office, will persist in acting like emperors instead of presidents.
this issue is bigger than just the iraq war. it's a major struggle between the executive and the legislature.
so call your congressman and both your senators and say, "look you little pissant sons of bitches, we want a fukin democracy here. step up. do the right thing."
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