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thatcrazycajunAll the gods forbid I should ever agree with anything written or said by conservative Washington Post pundit George Will. But so help me Tom Paine, I found myself nodding in agreement as I read his latest column on Congress' failure to rein in this President's military rampages through the Mideast, printed in my local paper's dead-tree edition (but sadly not, alas, posted on its website). The paper also pointed me to this book on the same subject, which I intend to look up the very next time I'm bookstore-prowling.
If even a longtime right-wing/GOP cheerleader like Will can finally see how far, far out of control this second Imperial Presidency has gotten, there may yet be hope for the republic. Now if he can only be persuaded to go across town and beat some sense into his warmongering colleague Bill Kristol...
"Well, Dr. Franklin, what have we got: a monarchy or a republic?"
"A republic, Madam...if you can keep it." —Benjamin Franklin, to a woman questioning him on his exit from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, PA, 1787
If even a longtime right-wing/GOP cheerleader like Will can finally see how far, far out of control this second Imperial Presidency has gotten, there may yet be hope for the republic. Now if he can only be persuaded to go across town and beat some sense into his warmongering colleague Bill Kristol...
"Well, Dr. Franklin, what have we got: a monarchy or a republic?"
"A republic, Madam...if you can keep it." —Benjamin Franklin, to a woman questioning him on his exit from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, PA, 1787
