Why is the GOP Congress and SCOTUS so willing - even eager...

[rucky]

to give up their own power to the Unitary Executive?

At least Bush admited he was for dictatorship, "Just as long as I'm the dictator."

What's in it for these other Monarchists? No guarantees, that's for sure. Especially without checks & balances.

[liberal N proud]

1. That could become the question of the century

Why did Congress give up poser to the dictator bu$h so easily?


IMO: There has to be some threat that the bu$h regime has over all the Congress and anyone who dares challenge them in their coup they are successfully throwing as we sit here on our asses helpless to stop them.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. Be nice to have a national dialog about the mailed anthrax attacks.

MKJ

[C_U_L8R]

3. Check out this BBC series

the Neocon agenda is laid out clearly....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=881321004838285177&q=Power+of+Nightmares&total=338&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

[Mojorabbit]

4. This is what bothers me the most

Something is terribly wrong here. Even a right wing court should not want this in case a Dem is in power.It defies logic that congress would want it. I can't imagine what they are thinking.

[ixion]

5. these are not real conservatives, but idelogues

and extremists, IMO.

[Mojorabbit]

8. Still

you would think you would have people from both partys screaming about this.

[ixion]

9. agreed

I can't believe more people don't see what is going on...

[unblock]

6. they have no power beyond what the party doles out to them.

democrats have this quaint model where congresscritters win "elections" and serve a geographic "constituency" of "people" and "voters" in "districts" or "states" and gain power by representing that "constituency" in congress.

republicans, on the other hand, look past the rapidly-becoming-defunct institutions like congress to power dynamics behind the scenes, mostly within the party and behind closed boardroom doors. if you do well raising money for the party and being a good party citizen, then you get rewarded with seats of power and the like. they are not for the people to give away, they are for the party to dole out.

the party gives you and image and funds to run on and a machine that smears your opponent. you win your seat. if you get uppity and think you have power beyond what the party tells you, then the party smears you and voila, you get defeated in the primary or are forced to resign.

the republican model is to sort out power within the party, then act as a united front outside the party. so other divisions like federal/state or judiciary/congressional/executive just get in the way.

so the bottom line is that gop congresscritters don't see an abdication of congressional power as any abdication of power at all. it's a shift of power from an institution that the republicans don't have firmly under control to one that they do. and they know that if they play their part, they will be rewarded.

[rucky]

7. That also explains the "us against the world" mentality. n/t

[baby_mouse]

10. IT PISSES OFF LIBERALS!

No other reason. NONE.

REALLY!