
Bush wasn't the first to create Constituti
onal crises, but he created more of them, eviscerati
ng the Constituti
on for all time. How do you go forward with it when its Achilles' heel has been laid bare for any BushCheney wannabe waiting in the weeds to exploit? What's now happened in the aftermath of BushCheney is that what Nixon did has been made legal. Once BushCheney happened, once they exploited those loopholes for everyone to see, you can't just go on as if it never happened. You can't "look forward, not back".
The situation might have been remedied had Obama come into office investigat
ing and prosecutin
g the Bush administra
tion and restoring the 'rule of law'. BushCheney exploited the inherent weaknesses in the Constituti
on: The precarious balance of power between the three branches of government
. But Obama refused, and has continued the BushChene y disregard of the Constituti on and even gone beyond BushChene y abuses.
That fact alone cast suspicion on Obama's good intentions after his failure to investigat
e and prosecute, and his continuing Bush's 'unitary executive' practices (and expanding them, with "indefinit
e preventive detention" of American citizens and the k!IIing of Americans with no due process or oversight)
.
There was a coup d'etat in this nation, a bloodless one, but a coup nonetheles
s. And both parties are in on it and we're 'flying without a net' (Constitut
ion).
The solution rests with each of us and what we're willing to do, to "risk", regardless of the rest of the 'herd'. If you think that Republican
s are worse, if you don't realize that Republican
s and Democrats work together in a 'good cop/bad cop' dance to further the interests of transnatio
nal corporatio
ns, then it'll be more of the same until we're all squeezed dry and living like Haitians.
If you think that Republican
s are worse & you're going to continue voting for Democrats, why should Obama and Democrats do anything for you? They know they've got you no matter how much they ignore you, Iie to you, treat you badly, rob you blind, take away your rights, etc. Dr. Phil would tell you to get out of a marriage/r
elationshi
p/partners
hip like that.
This has got to be confronted
, head on, or else there really isn't any future for the US. Americans have to see what a real Constituti
onal crisis means, and which politician
s have no compunctio
ns about creating them and bringing the nation down. If there's no "compromis
e" or "bipartisa
nship" over that, there is no US of A, no ability to compromise and work in a bipartisan way on anything else.
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