Steve Cleamons, at The Washington Note has as good a write up of the Bush team’s coup in progress.
Nonetheless, Bush has become the epitome of a Roman dictator in the 21st century in his assertion of “unitary executive” authority which this White House has argued has “inherent and limitless powers in his role as commander in chief, above the system of checks and balances.” The problem is that unlike Rome, where the Senate granted the dictator great powers, Congress has not — in fact — given Bush the authority to operate beyond his Constitutional authority. Bush has, instead, asserted that authority and taunted Congress to stop him.
Read the whole thing.