Independence Day 2007: When the President of the United States Pissed on the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Ideals of Democracy and All Americans but One

Well, at least he didn't have the arrogance to do it on the 4^th of July. Just two days shy of the day on which Americans celebrate their independence from a government in which one man must answer to nobody, Pres. Bush pissed on not only the Constitution, but the very idea of America.  If you are among the minority who still labor under the delusion that America as you knew it on the morning of January 20, 2001 still exists then what happened on the afternoon of July 2, 2007 is probably the final wake-up call you will get until that fateful day when a President that you don't like makes a decision that you consider to be criminal simply because...he or she can.

America, it is said, changed forever on September 11, 2001. That is not true. America changed the day that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were sworn into office and began the systematic dismantling of democracy. The last six years have witnessed what in any other country in the world could be described as a coup. America was built by people who feared that too much power in too few hands resulted in the oppression of too many. The framers of the American government worked long and hard to come up with a system that automatically and legally put the breaks on anyone who wanted more power than they were they Constitutionally allowed. And for over 200 years it worked. But the framers of this government never reckoned that someone like Dick Cheney and George Bush would come to power. They never reckoned on the evil of a Cheney or the stupidity of a Bush. It was beyond their comprehension that anyone as lacking in intelligence could ever get elected President and that anyone as Machiavellian as Cheney could find ways to turn the office of Vice President into a meaningful position.