The failure of imperial presidency and the one-party government that would rule for generations.

Sidney Blumenthal new book called the The Strange Death of Republican America tells the story of Cheney ideas of the imperial presidency and Rove’s idea of the single party system, and how these ideas have ultimately failed.

The Republicans swing too far to the Right
Just two years ago the Republican Party was in firm control of the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, but then the election of 2006 and something interesting happened. The Republicans loaded their ideological belief onto the election ballots across the nation; we had anti stem cell research initiatives, gay marriage bans, they very much tried to rally their religious right base to come out and vote. The problem is that the religious right is not the majority of Americans and on that day in Nov 2006 America’s voice was heard loud and clear and with this shout on that day, America saved itself from a probable swing into a theocratic one party form of government.

I don’t like Rove at all, but you have to give him credit, he saw if they could rally the religious right to come out to vote that they could swing the 2000 and 2004 elections in their favor, but after the fact they would need action to back up their words in order to keep this support. We then experienced things like the Terry Schiavo situation where we all witnessed the Federal Government attempt to intervene based on there religious beliefs, something that had never been done in America before, this to me was a complete violation of the separation of church and state were we all watched how Evangelical Christianity attempted to assert itself as the sole authority of morality in this country. They failed in there attempt, and it was discovered that her brain was mostly liquefied and there was never any chance of her getting better.

The Republican idea of embracing the religious right has doomed them, mainstream America doesn’t care if James Dobson endorses this candidate or this legislation, and we don’t need his approval or his blessing to be correct, moral, or just fair to all the people. We don’t share Hagee or Robertson’s bigoted and warped view of the world, and I imagine there are many Republicans that don’t either.

I have more to say on this matter but I will refrain for now.

The one party
This administrations attempt to fill non partisan positions in government with those who have passed litmus tests has been a disgusting failure. From the incompetence of the Katrina disaster to the attorney firings in the Justice department, they attempted to fill all government posts with people that believe in there ideology. This is such a scary and unacceptable act in itself. To fire people that don’t go along with your ideological will to prosecute people because they don’t support your views is outrageous. To then replace these people who do share your views is dangerous for our republic. Now we know what they did, and I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of this.

I keep waiting for when this administration is out of the Whitehouse and what other dark secrets will be revealed. Do you expect congressional investigations? Court proceedings? Do you expect Congress to enact legislation to protect Americans from an out of control Executive branch of government?

Is this the end of the NEO Con? And will the Republican Party fade to a shadow of its former self?

Invading countries that pose no thread to us, countries that have not attacked us, torture and warrantless wiretaps, filling positions in Government based on ideological beliefs and not on experience or expertise, siding with one particular religious sect is what we have and why we are having so many problems.



[edit on 12-8-2008 by LDragonFire]