The "D" word, and how we should use it.

[alfredo]

The "D" word is dictator or dictatorship.

I want to brand bush as an aspiring dictator. We do have videos of him declaring his desire to be "the dictator." We also have a long list of actions that can be pointed to as acts of a dictator. We also have "Unitary Executive." I believe it is time to take the "D" word public. It is time to put that scarlet letter smack dab in the middle of his forehead.

I have been writing a letter to the editor on this subject and I thought you might like a look, and maybe you can help me refine it or glean some ideas for a letter to your editor.

Here's the letter so far:

The struggle you are seeing between the Democratic congress and Bush is not just politics, it is struggle over whether the US will have what Cheney and others call a "Unitary Executive" or remain a democratic society. The Democratic led congress is trying to restore the checks and balance, to put congress back on an equal footing with the executive branch as the framers of the constitution intended.

The perpetual "war on terror" is not about winning, it is about holding on to the extraordinary powers of a war time president. Put in simpler terms, the administration sees Orwell's "1984" as a users manual instead of a warning.

This Unitary Executive movement started during Nixon's years. An aide in the Nixon White House was angered over the disloyalty of the congress when they voted to impeach Nixon. He set out to change all that by making the president unaccountable to congress and the courts. This aide had little success until he selected himself to be vice president under GW Bush.

This aide "Dick Cheney" and the spin masters like Karl Rove and Tony Snow like the term Unitary Executive, it hides the real meaning. It makes it sound acceptable. But let us call it what it really is: dictatorship.

It's time you started paying attention, and never forget what bush said days after he was awarded the presidency by the Supreme Court, ''If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier — so long as I'm the dictator.''

Please chime in on this subject. We need to frame bush and cheney as dictators and those in congress and right wing media as his enablers.