Relevant Insanity

Relevancy and insanity are two words that do not usually go together in the same sentence, but when we are dealing with President Bush, it fits perfectly. His little tirade yesterday confirmed his delusional state where he believes that he is still relevant to this nation. Sadly, in a way he is right.

The President still unconstitutionally goes over the American people and Congress' head with his wiretapping, his war and the signing statements he adds on to bills passed by the Legislative branch that he must sign when confronted with veto-proof majorities. The small percentage of America that still backs him somehow provides enough leverage for him to continue to execute the badly planned occupation in Iraq and the full-out assault on our Constitution.

Even though the American people overwhelmingly came together last fall and threw out the Republican-led House and Senate, the new Democratic Congress is almost as bad as the old one. Their acquiescence to his crimes and willingness to bend over for The Decider is absolutely disgusting.

Sure, the Democrats aren't all bad, they voted to expand S-CHIP, increase the minimum wage and do a few other things. But. But. The Democrats were placed in power to stop the war and to present a new direction for the country where international cooperation would replace the six year nightmare of overt unilateralism that made our Founding Fathers turn over in their graves.

So when George claims that he is still relevant...it is not his veto-wielding that keeps him in the spotlight as much as his hubris and authoritarian-like executive power that the Congress has consistently failed to check in the last nine months.