Bush has a back-up or two for his jumbo 5:00AM Wednesday September 05, 2007 By Doug Conway

Ever feel guilty about over-packing on your travels? George Bush will make you feel better.

The United States President, who arrived in Sydney last night, brought not one Jumbo jet, but three, as well as another two aircraft that carry aircraft. The President’s Jumbo has a back-up, and the back-up has a back-up.

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I get all misty eyed when I read Royko. I mean really. There is just something about politics in Chicago. The city, its culture, its history are all cut form the same cloth -burlap. FYI – Obama is from Hawaii. This hard scrabble sensibility that understands urban Americana - twisted. Daley reminds me of Robert Hansen, sociopathic ideologues who yearn for order. Sounds like someone we all know.  Read more 

The Consigliere: Stay half the course.

Dear Leader: Stay the course v.2 by upping the ante Salvadorian-style.  Read more 

The Decider cuts loose with another one, lets the mask slip, and reveals his authoritarianism for all to see:

[BUSHH] On my grade, I could have — we — the federal government, and I’m responsible for the federal government, could have done better in coordinating with the state and local government in its response.

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Um, no. Last I checked, the Federal government had three branches. Let’s review:

The federal government has three branches: the executive, legislative, and judicial. Through a system of separation of powers, each of these branches has some authority to act on its own, some authority to regulate the other two branches, and has some of its authority, in turn, regulated by one or both of the other branches.

The reasoning behing the separation of powers is best spelled out in James Madison’s famous Federalist 47:

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.  Read more