[Dean's World] Andrew Cory: Lucius Cornelius Bush

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Posted by Andrew Cory:
Lucius Cornelius Bush
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1161374621.shtml


   I made a [1]foolish best with Dean, and this post is my [2]forfeit.
   Which is fine. I really do think that History will vindicate President
   Bush. After all, Gaius Julius Caesar is considered a hero...

   American democracy is manifestly failing. The incentive structure
   which used to provide for goodâor at least adequateâleadership is now
   providing for its opposite. At the best of times congress is as frozen
   as ANWAR. At worst they eye taxpayers like wolves to uninspected beef.
   Congress has been halted by partisan disputes; Intercine, insipid,
   incapable, inflicting incalculable damage upon Americaâs ability to
   operate.

   In many was the judicial system was even worse. Judges interpreted not
   the public law, but rather concepts of justice. Their own concepts of
   justice. Judges have looked to foreign law and non-constitutional
   ideas to impose a supposed morality upon the American people. Congress
   sat by. The Presidency was complacent.

   Bush was different. He used his own keen ideas of right and wrong to
   force decisions. His electoral mandate gave him the moral imprimatur
   to becomeâin his own wordsâthe decider. He has used his own brand of
   moral clarity to define our age. Rather than letting problems and
   issues be debated in a constrained congress, he took it upon himself
   to bring security to American families. His issuance of secret decrees
   creating secret courts and secret laws created a whole new paradigm
   for American governance.

   Bushâs decisions systematically reduced the legislative and judicial
   branches into irrelevance. They became the vestigial organs of public
   discourse. It would not be for Bush to transform the Republic, but he
   left the tools in place. When those tools were used, he was remembered
   as the American [3]Sulla to anotherâs Caesar. History remembers
   Caesar, and Sulla, with fondnessâit will recall Bush the same way...

References

   1. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1160776215.shtml#87492
   2. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1160879899.shtml#87585
   3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla