Brent Budowsky, The Hill, August 15, 2007
The Bush-Rove vision is so daring it is breathtaking.
George Bush and Karl Rove seek one-party domination of American politics, with executive domination over the legislative and judicial branches of American government.
They move to pack the Supreme Court with unitary power believers, bully the Congress into submissively accepting executive branch encroachments, destroy the system of checks and balances and impose radical changes in the American government that are the antithesis of what the Founding Fathers intended.
They seek to change the very psychology of Americanism, pounding fear into the American people, courts, Congress and Democratic leaders since Sept. 11, 2001.
Posing the choice as submitting to Big Brother or being exterminated by mushroom clouds, they have pummeled the republic for six years with a non-stop, 24/7 propaganda campaign of fearmongering that is unprecedented in American history.
George Bush is a lame duck? With an iron will Bush negated the 2006 election by pushing through an escalation of the Iraq war, expanded executive powers over Congress and new powers for foreign and domestic surveillance.