The majority party of the moment may not use its powers to strip citizens of their rights

the nyt "seems" to be suggesting that it has only recently come to this realization...

[T]he Bush administration seems to be losing sight of the fact that the rules . . . say the majority party of the moment may not use its powers to strip citizens of their rights, politicize the judicial system or rig the election process to keep itself in office.

there's no "seems" about it... bush has been fully engaged in this agenda since well before he took his first-term presidential oath... when you carefully follow the karl rove/george bush spoor, the trail extends back nearly 30 years, paralleled by and frequently intersecting with the trails of christian fundamentalists and neo-conservatives bent on reconstructing the u.s. to conform to their respective ideologies...

Mr. Bush and his team don't understand that they merely hold the current majority in a system designed to bring periodic changes in the governing party and to protect the rights and values of the minority party. The idea that the winners should trash the system to make sure the democratic process ended with them was discredited back around the time of the Bolsheviks.

protecting the "rights and values of the minority party" is the least of it... imho, the minority party is every bit as culpable for the mess we're in as the criminals currently in power... it's the "rights and values" of the american people that are under assault...

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