Anthony LewisNYTimes: "The Feeling of a Coup" (Mar 2001)

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dont have a link, but this 2001 commentary hit it right on --

Bush is making radical changes to American democracy without
a mandate, in fact Bush stole the White House by crooked means
by way of a right-wing coup

Bush is still trashing over 200 years of American democracy
more & more each day.

An illegal immoral war of aggression where US soldiers are
dying daily. Where Iraqi civilians are dying daily.

While the blood soaked pockets of his PNAC cabal donors are filled
with US tax dollars by the Billion$ in "no-bid" so-called
contracts (otherwise know in this rest of the world as
payoffs

War profitteers IS the Bush misadministration.


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New York Times
March 31, 2001

The Feeling of a Coup
By ANTHONY LEWIS

BOSTON -- We are learning something these days about the power of a willful president. Without a popular mandate, George W. Bush is making radical changes that will have long-term consequences for this country and the world. He is making them in a hurry, and for the moment there are no checks or balances to stop him.

Day after day headlines tell us of fundamental policy reversals. Mr. Bush spurns the global effort, going back to the first Bush presidency, to reduce global warming. He calls off talks with North Korea about its missiles, casting doubt on the whole attempt to ease relations between South and North. He proposes to rethink U.S. aid programs that help dismantle former Soviet nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

A string of Bush administration decisions has halted steps to protect the environment. Arsenic in drinking water, roads in national forests and so on: limits are going to be "restudied."

The reasons given for the environmental decisions have been almost insultingly unconvincing. Christie Whitman, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said she was withdrawing the arsenic limit set in a Clinton administration regulation because it had not had "thorough review" in terms of "sound science." In fact, the limit was proposed by highly regarded scientists after extended study.

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1. That reminds me

He's also an ACLU member -- from that film I saw earlier today.

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2. more excerpts -

Anthony Lewis

...The Bush motto, a Washington quip has it, is "Do it my way or no way." That catches the willful quality of these first months. But there is more to the story than that.

This is the most radical administration in living American memory. I use the word deliberately. Today's right calls itself "conservative," but it is not that. Conservatives want to conserve. That is why Teddy Roosevelt started the national parks and the conservation movement. George W. Bush and his people are driven by right-wing ideology to an extent not remotely touched by even the Reagan administration.

And we haven't seen the half of it. As Mr. Dombeck said of opening the national forests to road-building, the decisions "will have implications that will last many generations."

All this from a man who ran as a "compassionate conservative," concealing his hard-edged ideology, and who could not get half the voters to vote for him even in that guise.