Hyping Fear to Keep One-Party Rule

We need a Congress that will return a system of checks and balances to OUR government. The Republican led Congress has proven they are nothing but hand maidens of the Bush White House. Vote for a change in Congress, it will make a difference. Bush has led this country into blunder after blunder and NOBODY is held accountable. He has done enormous damage that will take decades to overcome. One-Party Rule has to end, vote in November and vote for change, vote for accountability and vote for truth. How Bush Rules: How Republicans Are Hyping Fear to Keep One-Party Rule Sidney Blumenthal President Bush's radical presidency is the underlying number one issue in the mid-term elections campaign. His drive to concentrate unaccountable and unchecked power in the executive has depended on one-party Republican control of the Congress. Without a Republican Congress that does the White House bidding, the Bush agenda would never have been enacted and be supported, despite its consequences. The interlocking of the radical president and Congress has frozen the natural checks and balances in the system, as I document in my new book "How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime." Unlike past Congresses that shared the same party of an incumbent president, the Republican Congress during the Bush period has largely abdicated its constitutional obligation to assert its institutional authority. Whether Bush's power will be limited for his remaining two years in office or whether he will have a clear path for further adventures is a question that will be decided in the mid-term elections. Congressional Republicans leaders have hardly been embarrassed by the exposure of Bush's errors, mistakes and misleading efforts. From the experience of the Bush disinformation campaign used to justify the invasion of Iraq the congressional Republicans have apparently learned that they must advance disinformation campaigns even more aggressively than before. What the Republicans have to fear is the absence of fear itself. Read More at: HuffingtonPost