re: "Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement In addendum to law, he
says oversight rules are not binding" The Boston Globe,
3/24/06
With Bush's approval ratings hovering around 35% and Republican candidates
running from him as quickly as they can, the neocons, who pull this lame duck's
strings, are conducting a constitutional scorched earth policy. This
policy is driven by the neocons' perverse fetish for unlimited unitary
executive power, even if it means handing over such unlimited power to a
Democrat in 2008 (Heil Hillary! anyone?).
Why would the neocons do that? Because neocon loyalty is not to party or
even ideas or principles. They loyalty is to power. The neocon
dream legacy is to fully destroy the Founders' Constitution and to insert the
Fuhrer Principle into the American system of government. Period.
They don't give a damn about our republic or whether the president is a
Republican or Democrat, so long as the power itself is expanded and then
preserved. Neocons are the modern version of monarchists, and for
them, the presidency is our monarchy (just to be nice, I won't use the other
more obvious and recent historical analogy). Neocons couldn't care less
about which political party controls our "parliament" and ultimately
don't care who is The Leader, so long as we have one. To them, any
king is better than no king.
P.S. These signing statements are the equivalent of writing
"N/A" across the front of the bill and then spiffy little arrow
pointing to Bush's signature, letting the world know he has exempted himself
from the law.
