Dohiyi Mir
In Which NTodd Says His Peace
Juxtaposition
While Japan inches towards meaningful democracy, we march closer to one party rule:
The Bush White House, irritated by pesky questions from congressional Democrats about how the administration is using taxpayer money, has developed an efficient solution: It will not entertain any more questions from opposition lawmakers.
Over at Kos, I had to invoke Godwin and quote my "favorite" passage from Mein Kampf:
A shrewd victor will, if possible, always present his demands to the vanquished in installments. And then, with a nation that has lost its character-and this is the case of every one which voluntarily submits-he can be sure that it will not regard one more of these individual oppressions as an adequate reason for taking up arms again. 'The more extortions are willingly accepted in this way, the more unjustified it strikes people finally to take up the defensive against a new, apparently isolated, though constantly recurring, oppression, especially when, all in all, so much more and greater misfortune has already been borne in patient silence.
Just one more little thing BushCo has done to silence the opposition. One minor demand, part of a mosaic of demands. It might seem like a teeny thing, but as Hitler observed, if you slowly bring the country to a boil people won't notice. I hope the spineless Dems in Congress stand up to this latest attempt to dismantle our system of checks and balances.
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