Our challenge isn't about trying to elect the "right" people

sidney blumenthal hits the nail on the head...

Bush’s torture policy is a centerpiece of his effort to concentrate unfettered power in the executive, an overarching change justified by an executive order declaring that in his role as commander-in-chief in wartime he can make and enforce laws at will.

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The debate over Bush’s insistence on the use of torture is not a weird aberration, but central to his entire radical project to transform the American constitutional system, create an unaccountable executive, and operate outside the rule of law if he so decides.

robert parry strikes a similar chord...

[Bush is] an autocratic leader who is both “inner-directed” and possesses a messianic view of the world. “Inner-directed” could be defined as impervious to outside criticism, advice or even reality. Many of the history’s most dangerous dictators also were “inner-directed.”

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[H]e and his neoconservative advisers have operated in an ideological reality of their own making, that they have too little respect for the opinions of others, that they are hubristic and anti-democratic.

our challenge isn't about making better policy... our challenge isn't about stopping torture... our challenge isn't what to do about iraq... our challenge isn't about restoring a shredded social contract or a u.s. constitution shot full of holes... our challenge isn't about trying to elect the "right" people...

we need to be very honest here... our challenge is much broader and much more serious than even those very important things... we must face the fact that a great deal of our national government has been taken over by a dangerous band of criminals and, unless and until they are driven out, nothing else can be done... my fear is that, as i posted last night about the likelihood of election fraud this fall and continuing on into future elections, our vaunted democratic election process isn't going to be able to do the job...

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