May I have your attention: Congress has not declared war.
Why does Bush the Lesser, our eunuch unitary executive, keep implying that it has done so?
"The greatest threat to liberty [is] Democratic Caesarism -- that is, the encroachment of executive power, supported by a drilled and disciplined party that [is] bent on spoils rather than the public good." -- Major L. Wilson, The Presidency of Martin Van Buren, at 197 (1984).
Let's see. "Spoils" is defined as: "Incidental benefits reaped by a winner, especially political patronage enjoyed by a successful party or candidate."
Has anyone other than those disloyal folks on the left wing, obvious enemies of the State, recognized that there is an all-out assault on LIBERTY by those bent on spoils rather than the public good?
Where are the Whigs when we need them?
Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed. -- Emergency Decree for the Protection of the People and the State, Germany, February 27, 1933.
It makes me wonder just how far democracy in America has progressed under our system of three branches of government, in which the President seems to think that he can suspend the operation of laws enacted by Congress, the sole branch authorized to enact laws, as Hitler's lackey, President Paul von Hindenburg did, and interpret them so that the laws have no practical effect, when he has the Constitutional duty to "... take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed ...." That's with a capital "C" in the original, by the way.
Having bored you for far too long, a guy named George Washington, the Father of Our Country, warned in his Farewell Address, stepping away from the presidency even though urged to stay, in 1796: "If ... the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."
There can be no doubt that Bush has usurped Congressional and Judicial power; he has admitted that, and his Vice President makes no bones about wanting more power.
We are on the path to destruction. Many, it seems, have been blinded by the spoils.
Posted by Bill at January 18, 2006 11:53 PM