Scribbling

Despite a call from voters for an alteration of the foreign policy morass euphemistically dubbed the War on Terror by the Bush administration, Democrats, who now control Congress, have lost their will after the President’s veto and are prepared to permit him to have a blank check with regard to Iraq after all. Apparently the Dems do not have the stamina to persevere in the cause sanctioned by the people who voted them into office, which is perhaps the most telling point in the confrontation of the independent branches of our government since the theoretical seat of power in our democratic republic is the electorate. Maybe this affront can be made more palatable with a constitutional amendment ceding Divine Right as an inherent nature of the President; Bush has operated on this principle from the very commencement of his “election” to office and even now, well into his second term, despite the consent of the electorate there have been only faint flashes of courage to enforce the legal restraints of democracy. Our leaders seem intent on grooming us for a world in disarray; they prod us like Prospero questions Miranda in Shakespeare’s The Tempest: What seest thou else, In the dark backward and abysm of time?–and worry that we might recall the vital images of democracy.