What’s the point of having power if you don’t use it to get more power?

once again, i'm staggered at how people are reeling over a revelation of something that has been so obvious for so long... you didn't have to be a genius to see what these people were up to - grasping for unfettered power, reducing the united states to the level of a totalitarian regime, and channeling rivers of cash into their own and their cronies' pockets... these have been the top agenda items from day one, and they still are, and will remain so until these crooks are removed from office...

Time and again, President Bush and his team have assured Americans that they needed new powers to prevent another attack by an implacable enemy. Time and again, Americans have discovered that these powers were not being used to make them safer, but in the service of Vice President Dick Cheney’s vision of a presidency so powerful that Congress and the courts are irrelevant, or Karl Rove’s fantasy of a permanent Republican majority.

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[T]he governing philosophy of this administration: What’s the point of having power if you don’t use it to get more power?

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