Even those who adore Bush should be concerned about the changes his adminstritation has brought to how the ‘proper’ exercise of power had been redefined. The next president is liable to build on these new precedents and the next and the next.

It’s no longer a question of D vs R. It’s the power of the executive vs democracy,or if it’s not that yer, it will be in just a few more rolls of the jpresidential snowball. In a Banana Republic, it doesn’t much matter what the political leanings of the dictator are.

If Democrats hadn’t taken control of Congress this year, we might be living in a third-world country under self-reinforcing Republican rule. Ultimately we have George Bush’s stupidity and stubbornness over Iraq to thank for saving us.

I got a better one for you: George W. Bush is really Mephistopheles (Satan is of course Karl Rove) and the Rethuglicans, escaped demons from hell who like to feed on the carcasses of pure and good liberals/progressives. See…that was easy. From *that* purely nonpartisan starting point, let’s have a serious and reasonably informed conversation. Ought to be funtabulous…

If Democrats hadn’t taken control of Congress this year, we might be living in a third-world country under self-reinforcing Republican rule.

When that’s the lead sentence how can you take anything said as serious?

Image what the U.S. will be like with the next President Clinton and more than 60 Democratic Senators. Half of the offices in DC will be moving to West Virginia and the size of the public unions will double.