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Great comment by Molly Ivins in a recent column describing Attorney General Gonzales' (not under oath) testimony defending Bush's blatent law breaking to the Senate Judiciary committee: She called him a "pathetic pipsqueak"...."too lightweight to even be a mediocrity". Pretty amazing when you think about Bush's appointments to Attorney General, first there was Ashcroft, who lost his Senate seat to a corpse. And now Gonzales, the top lawyer, who puts partisan loyalty above the Constitution and the law...............For all the things Bush has done wrong as President, the lies about the war, the incompetence and corruption in Iraq, the top heavy tax cuts, the huge defecit spending, the chipping away at the social/economic safety net, the appointment of corrupt cronies, the dirty politics, the pandering to the religious right, and the costly and bad legislation concerning medicare prescriptions, bankruptcy and the environment, the worst thing he has done is defied the rule of law and the constitution. He, in effect, said doesn't care what the law says about getting warrants for domestic spying; and he is going to do what he thinks is best and necessary. Then he sent his Attorney General to defend his lawbreaking to the Senate and he sent his crooked king maker Karl Rove to whisper in the ears of Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee that they better go along with Bush's law breaking else they would suffer the loss of Republican financial and propaganda support in their next re-election campaign...........If Bush gets away with this, and he probably will. It points out that after over 200 years of a Constitutional government based on the rule of law the Republicans have done structural damage to our once great consensual form of Democracy. Through propaganda, media and election manipulation they have gained the Presidency a majority in Congress, and now with Alito and Roberts a majority on the Supreme Court. What this means is as long as Karl Rove can keep the Republican congress in line, and he's got plenty of corporate campaign funds to do this with, he has uncovered a fatal flaw in our Constitution by eliminating the system of "checks and blances" with our current one party government. Thus, the President and his men can lie, break the law and pretty much say and do what they want with no re-course from Congress or the Judiciary. Short of a contemporary Boston Tea Party, there's nothing "we the people can do either", except watch the next segment of American Idol. So the congressional elections are pretty important this year, and we "aint seen nothing yet" in Republican dirty tricks. Because this election is all about supeona power, and it's the Dems last chance to re-establish checks and balance.