Bush to move closer to dictatorship with executive orders

To Implement Policy, Bush to Turn to Administrative Orders

By Michael Abramowitz and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, October 31, 2007; Page A03

The White House plans to try implementing as much new policy as it can by administrative order while stepping up its confrontational rhetoric with Congress after concluding that President Bush cannot do much business with the Democratic leadership, administration officials said.

According to those officials, Bush and his advisers blame Democrats for the holdup of Judge Michael B. Mukasey's nomination to be attorney general, the failure to pass any of the 12 annual spending bills, and what they see as their refusal to involve the White House in any meaningful negotiations over the stalemated children's health-care legislation.

White House aides say the only way Bush seems to be able to influence the process is by vetoing legislation or by issuing administrative orders, as he has in recent weeks on veterans' health care, air-traffic congestion, protecting endangered fish and immigration. They say they expect Bush to issue more of such orders in the next several months, even as he speaks out on the need to limit spending and resist any tax increases.

The events of recent weeks have "crystallized that the chances of these leaders meeting the administration halfway are becoming increasingly remote," said White House spokesman Tony Fratto.

Bush himself has been complaining more and more bitterly about congressional Democrats in recent weeks. In a private meeting yesterday with House Republicans in the East Room of the White House, Bush recalled how he had been able to work with Democrats when he was Texas governor and said he had hoped to find the same relationships in Washington.

"He sort of longs for those days, when both sides were genuinely interested in getting along and getting a deal," said Rep. Adam H. Putnam :puke:(R-Fla.), the chairman of the House Republican Conference, who helped organize yesterday's White House meeting, attended by about 150 Republicans.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103000558.html

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." —President-elect George W. Bush, at a photo-op with congressional leaders during his first trip to Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000

stupid fucking man.

The Official George W. Bush
"Days Left In Office"
Countdown Clock

446 DAYS
10 Hrs 43 Min 39.5 Sec

More than enough time for disaster

http://www.backwardsbush.com/?gclid=CJiT3bnRuY8CFQGdPAod9Xuucw

seems interminable.

Impeach him and his dark overlord.

"You do what we say and shut up."

holdups. what's next on his tanturm list? holding his breath until he gets his way?

he is a despicable man.

actually mean HE must give as well.

He hasn't been willing to do that. "My way or I veto" is not compromising, nor is it meeting halfway.

Bush should consider himself fortunate that he hasn't been brought up for impeachment yet. If we had a decent Congress, it would be a different story right now.

"He sort of longs for those days, when both sides were genuinely interested in getting along and getting a deal,"

This is one big heap of fresh steaming shit.
Repugs are getting really desperate. Rove must have been working overtime to come up with this one.

dissolve the 3 branches of government, and fuck the Congress.

long before they set foot in the White House...

can say howdy to some Blackwater stormtroopers.

have been made, thus bypassing congressional oversight.
the man has serious delusions of grandeur.

advising him to read this article. Then I asked the person to convey to him the need to get behind an article of impeachment for *, to put a stop to the marginalizing of congress, to stand up and do their jobs and restore balance to our government...* is out of control.

:thumbsup:

This sci-fi dramatization from Liberty News talks a lot about our fears from what seems to be building up here... Done in "Death of a President" style.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2172965&mesg_id=2172965

I hate to say it, but we need someone with balls in the Speaker position.

would be a better way of saying it. I do agree with you however.