It's been said I've been 'blinded' by my hatred for W...

[mburbank]

See, to me, Ashcroft is simply emblematic of the administration. He's just doing what he was hired to do, which is tend exclusively to political goals and lie.

That to me IS the Chenney/Rove/bush administration. One goal: Amass power. Every decision feeds that goal. Nothing, not justice, not safety, not the law, nothing is seen through any other lense. Then you lie about it, to protect the power you've amassed. And as the administration has aged, the plausability of the lies has seemed to matter less and less. At this point they no longer care if you believe them.

The outrageousness of the lies becomes a way of saying what Chenney said to Leahy a few years back, "Go fuck yourself", except the number of people they are saying that to, and the bluntness of how the choose to say it has grown dramatically.

I'm not a fan of politicians and never have been. But I maintain that I have been right for six years now to hate these bastards as much as I do, that they are META-politicians, absolutely shameless, absolutely amoral, absolutely superior. They are not in any sense at all public servants, they believe this is their country, property they can do with as they please. These are people who would make Nixon blush.

And even more than the executive branch itself, I am AMAZED at the Republican party. Because unless the administration is planning a military takeover (and I don't think they are) there is a very real possability that they will take this theory of the unitary, royal, anticonstitutional presidency and hand it on a silver platter to Hillary Clinton.