- Even the rag euphemistically called your 'daily newspaper'
tips you off, and sometimes in not so subtle ways, to the eventual fall
of the Bush administration. Not tomorrow, or the next day perhaps, but
inevitably, and in the not too distant future.
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- Consider the stories about this administration scattered
throughout most papers, most every day; some fairly apparent, but most
buried on the back pages. You could do worse than giving these reports
some good, hard, commonsense thought.
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- 'President's bold agenda proving to be elusive' and 'Bush
expects a moral voice out of Benedict XVI' and 'Bush to push energy plan
with Saudi Arabia' and 'Bring democracy home to U.S.' are a few from today's
paper.
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- Previous editions also have seen newsworthiness in reporting
Bush's more personal involvement in the Schiavo case, pro-choice and anti-abortion
issues, privatizing Social Security, and a myriad of other private issues
that involve individual preferences and personal choices of the American
people.
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- I submit that this material should make it glaringly
apparent that there is a serendipitous relationship, if you will, that
ties all these reports together, and which rather conclusively portends,
at least for this writer, the downfall of the Bush administration.
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- And the one word that best describes it; the 'why' of
that impending downfall is: Interference.
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- With apologies for repeating myself, I've noted on numerous
occasions what the President swears to when he takes the oath of office:
"to execute the office of the President of the United States, and
will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution
of the United States."
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- I find that most interesting. Because in "preserving,
protecting and defending" the Constitution, nowhere in this priceless
document can I find a reference for the lawful duty of a president to interfere
in any way with a citizen's protected rights of privacy, choice, preference,
decisions, or peaceful and non-violent acts or activities.
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- The fact is, the only legitimate civilian power the President
has is over the military, his cabinet, his pardon power, and his appointments.
Period. End of story.
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- What the president should NOT do (but is doing), and
in fact is restricted by the Constitution from doing, is taking sides in
personal disputes, dictating morals or behavior, favoring one personal
agenda over another, restricting personal liberties and movements under
the guise of 'homeland security', and in many other ways tampering aggressively
with the constitutional liberties and rights of the people.
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- The name for these power-hungry acts is, Interference,
and this kind of illegal, presidential interference, slowly recognized,
uncomfortably felt, and seethingly resented by the people, is what, in
my opinion, will bring down this administration.
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- When a president interferes in peoples' private lives,
he quits being a president and becomes a tyrant. And about that, Thomas
Jefferson gave us this to remember: "Resistance to tyrants is obedience
to God."
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