Chris Floyd in the Moscow Times points out
That the United States, once touted as the "world's greatest democracy," is now ruled by a presidential dictatorship is a fact beyond any serious dispute. . . . The Bush Administration no longer bothers to hide the novel theory of government upon which its rule is based, but declares it openly, in court, in Congress, everywhere.
The theory holds that the president has the arbitrary right to ignore any law that he feels is an unconstitutional infringement of his power -- and a law is automatically unconstitutional if the president feels it infringes on his power. This neatly squared circle makes Congress irrelevant and removes the judiciary from the loop altogether. Thus, the only effective instrument of power left in the land is the "unitary executive": the fancy modern name that the legal minions of President George W. Bush have given to the ancient concept of "tyranny."
Which pretty much sums it up. Except of course that dictators tend to rule indefinitely.
Bob Cesca in HuffPost suggests the inscription on this bust of Bush is evidence of plans to cancel the next presidential election. But Raw Story cites a source saying it’s just because it was completed during Bush’s first term. We shall see. Though it's not as though they can't rig the election to replace him with some other, equivalent, figure. The problem of course is systemic (especially now that the machinery is in place with the supremes), not individual. And anyway Cheney could stay on as Dicktator.
