Reality check: "The only way our form of democracy works is to realize that the President wants to be King"

steve clemons hits on the hard-core reality behind the founders' wisdom in establishing the balance of powers...

The only way our form of democracy works is to realize that the President wants to be King, that Members of Congress want to be re-elected and derive power from keeping the King in check, and that the Judiciary has ultimate authority in most cases to resolve disputes between branches of government and contending political interests. The aspirant King and the wannabe rulers in the Congress both have input into the membership of the Judiciary.

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We should also expect that the Patriot Act would be misused, misapplied, and distorted beyond the intention Congress and the White House had for it.

glenn greenwald elaborates...

When a country is ruled by an individual who repeatedly and openly arrogates unto himself the power to violate the law, and specifically proclaims that he is under no obligation to account to Congress or anyone else concerning the exercise of radical new surveillance powers such as NSLs [National Security Letters], it should come as absolutely no surprise that agencies under his control freely break the law. The culture of lawlessness which the President has deliberately and continuously embraced virtually ensures, by design, that any Congressional limits on the use of executive power will be violated.

i posted on this yesterday, and i'll simply repeat what i said then...

there is no way to overstate how grave is our constitutional crisis... unless and until george and his criminal gang are removed, yadda, yadda, ad nauseam...

and deliver us from evil, amen...

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