commentary this morning<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, the editors of The New Yorker
\nhave endorsed John Kerry for president. Their summary of all the many reasons underscores the
\nneed to reclaim American democracy from the coup four years ago that turned the United
\nStates into a right-wing banana republic.<\/P>
\nAfter being installed as president by the U.S. Supreme Court following his loss
\nin the popular vote nationwide, George W. Bush took office with his minions and
\nproceeded to rule like the boss of an imperious junta. Instead of governing from the
\ncenter, which would have acknowleged their lack of a true mandate, they chose to exploit their
\npower without regard to the nation’s electorate and with no intention to heal its bitter
\ndivision.<\/P>
\n
“From the very day we walked in the building,” Vice President Cheney told Bob Woodward
\nin “Plan of Attack,” which the editors cite, “a notion of sort of a restrained presidency because it
\nwas such a close election, that lasted maybe thirty seconds. It was not contemplated for any
\nlength of time. We had an agenda, we ran on that agenda, we won the election — full speed
\nahead.”<\/P>
\n
Won the election? Not by a long shot. Not even by a wolfish hair of his chinny-chin-chin.
\n<\/P>
\n
The Supreme Court decision that halted the vote recount in Florida — where Bush’s
\nslimmest and most questionable of margins if overturned would have given Al Gore the
\npresidency — was “so shoddily reasoned and transparently partisan,” the New Yorker editors
\nwrite, “that the five justices who endorsed the decision declined to put their names on it, while the
\nfour dissenters did not bother to conceal their disgust.”<\/P>
\n
The court ignored the usual “rules for settling electoral disputes of this kind, in federal and
\nstate law and in the Constitution itself,” and thus installed Bush “by fiat,” which “made a
\nmockery not only of popular democracy but also of constitutional republicanism.”<\/P>
\n
It’s time to throw the junta bums out.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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