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Category Archives: Creeping Totalitarianism

We’re (not) number one!

Monday, August 6, 2007

Via the Seminal, we learn that Russia ranks 102nd of 167 countries in the scale of democracy, at least according to the Economist. I neither endorse nor quarrel with the views of the Seminal writer. My immediate reaction was: Where stands the cradle of democracy, the land of the new birth of freedom, the country […]

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Democrats cower yet again

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Every time Bush fails at something, he asks for increased authority. Every time he asks, Congress gives it to him. He then fails again, and asks again. Why this vicious cycle? In a word, Democrats continue to be frightened every time he accuses them of being soft on terror. The latest chapter is the expansion […]

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House votes contempt, but …

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolton in contempt. The vote was along party lines. Yet more evidence that the system of checks and balances has been all but destroyed. One must wonder whether the White House has conveyed more than brilliant legal arguments to the House Republicans in […]

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Debating impeachment

Sunday, July 22, 2007

There is a fascinating exchange in the comments at Ezra Klein’s blog. Klein advocates impeachment, and quotes from the Paul Craig Russell column to which I linked recently ctblueblog.com/?p=307, and the possibility of a coup or coup-like denouement to the Bush Administration, possibly in the form of a “temporary” seizure of power after a conveniently […]

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Another call for impeachment

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, so it shouldn’t really be surprising that a former Reagan official and former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal Editorial page would be so right about impeachment. Via the

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Bush assumes dictatorial powers-nation yawns

Friday, July 20, 2007

Years from now, we may look back at this day as a watershed day. Today, George Bush all but officially declared war on our Constitutional system of government. The question now is whether this increasingly creaky system, based on the absurd 18th century idea that we could successfully govern ourselves through a mix of reason […]

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Impeach Dick, then George

Friday, July 6, 2007

A new poll finds that 54% of Americans favor impeaching Dick Cheney, against a mere 46% that favor impeaching Bush. There’s something to be said for going after Dick first. He’s so massively unpopular. That 54% number could easily increase if it was tied to the argument that impeaching Cheney was a way to put […]

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Olbermann outraged

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Keith Olbermann on the Libby pardon: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmrcpDiv_ac[/youtube]

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I’m outraged, how about you?

Monday, July 2, 2007

George Bush has commuted Libby’s prison sentence because two and a half years in prison is excessive for merely perverting the course of justice and committing perjury. This is merely the last in a “long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinc[ing] a design to reduce [us] under absolute Despotism.” . […]

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Talking lesson from George (Orwell, that is)

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Further proof that Bushco considers Orwell’s 1984 a How-To book. Yesterday, I read this post on Josh Marshall’s site, in which he showcased a comment that noted the fact that the people fighting us in Iraq are now being called Al Qaeda by the media. In this morning’s Times the observation is borne out: The […]

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