]"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands ...

[LynnTheDem]

...(is) the definition of tyranny,"

-James Madison

Guess, what, Mr. Madison.

[Ytzak]

1. Unfortunatly, Madison is dead.

And so is the United States, apparantly.

[Solly Mack]

2. Oh now...these things happen in a healthy democracy

you know - torture, extraordinary renditions, illegal detentions, prison ships, secret prisons, wars of lies , assorted Constitutional violation, as well as the rise of the unitary executive and the marginalization of Congress

Hey..Rumsfeld said Democracy is messy

[Cleita]

3. You forgot the eradication of the middle class. n/t

[Solly Mack]

4. Just a normal adjustment in a changing - & healthy - democracy

doncha know...

[Cleita]

5. Yes, 1% of the population should own 90% of the wealth.

I get it.

[Solly Mack]

6. Let's call that the aspiration meter for the American Dream

Now, doesn't that make you feel all better about it?

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Consolidate all branches into one...

...like this one, control it through authoritarian tactics and one obedient party, the GOP.

Sell it to the highest bidder (every thing's a commodity, right?) and voila, you have another GOP "success".

[Olney Blue]

8. He must be spinning in his grave.

[many a good man]

9. We may as well dissolve Congress

Who needs three branches of government, any way? The networks can make up the lost revenues by running T. Boone Pickens infomercials.