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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (726391)	2/17/2006 12:13:36 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"OK, incomplete control then." So we agree on that.... "The point is, our separation of powers design is working perfectly." I would argue with 'perfect'. NOTHING is 'perfect', certainly not governance... and, IMO, over the decades one branch of our government - the Executive - has steadily been increasing it's powers relative to the other two branches. The VAST majority of 'bloat' in federal government is in the Executive branch... sums expended on the other two branches are trivial by comparison. It was not always thus. "You just don't like the result. Right now." Bull. (I just think that when political power is more evenly distributed between the two dominant sides of the 'Republi-crat Party' the government GROWS SLOWER because they often oppose each other's expansion efforts. GRIDLOCK is EVEN BETTER at slowing government's rate of growth.) "No doubt I feel the same way when people like Bill Clinton get in the Oval Office." That is not 'the same way'.... I am saying that REGARDLESS of which Party it is, if they take political control of all three branches of the federal government that is BAD, BAD, BAD for individual liberties, and bad for the goal of restraining the growth of government.