Reply #13: Sorry, but I take a different view

[journalist3072]

I believe that once you begin to go down this slippery slope, it's extremely hard to reverse course.

And I don't think we need to kid ourselves that we are in very dangerous territory in this country, with an Administration with unprecedented powers, that is unchecked and unaccountable.

And once you grant those powers to one Administration, how do you justify not giving it to the next?

Do you really think the next President (even if it is a Democratic) is going to sign some executive order that takes aways from them, the powers just given to George W. Bush? Do you really think that even a new Democratic President will say 'I don't want these unchecked powers. I'm signing this executive order taking these powers away from me.'

Once you go down a certain road, it's hard to turn back.

The question I've been asking myself the past few days is: where is our recourse in this country?

If the Congress is now caving in to Bushie's every whim, and the courts are full of loyal Bushies, where do we go for our recourse?