John Dean derides 'imperial presidency,' GOP leadership
LOS ANGELES - John Dean, the White House lawyer who famously helped blow the whistle on the Watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office, says the country has returned to an "imperial presidency" that is putting the United States and the world at risk.
In his new book, Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean looks at Republican-controlled Washington and sees a bullying, manipulative, prejudiced leadership edging the nation toward a dark era.
"Are we on the road to fascism?" he writes. "Clearly, we are not on that road yet. But it would not take much more misguided authoritarian leadership, or thoughtless following of such leaders, to find ourselves there.
We have returned to the imperial presidency," he said. "We have an unchecked presidency."
This headstrong leadership style marks the current Republican right in varying degrees, he says, starting with President Bush and moving on down through the leadership ranks. The Bush White House, Dean says, has "given authoritarianism a new legitimacy," the same legitimacy he says it enjoyed before Nixon's presidency unraveled.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/books/4124781.html
Do you agree with John Dean's comments that "we have returned to the imperial presidency?"
3 comments:
Let's also include non-qualified staff running the WH and the first time having a WH run like a corporate business.
"They have it all wrong: You can only be as good as the people around you, therefore, do not hire idiots."
Right you are, kittybowtie!
I notice how many business/corporate people were hired and and how many officals bailed out from their jobs under the Gerbil and company versus Clinton Administatration. And look at how many of the oil companies are connected with the gerbil Administrattion. Lastly, how many of the Gerbil and company have military experiences.. We are certainly seeing lack of leadership from this Administration. When you read the title of a President, a President has character, intergrity, and leadership.. And the Gerbil lacks all three...
I guess Bush likes being called a King but there is more going on in the backroom deals I think the outside appearance is a front for the public view as to keep the real action out of sight. Look Gonzales needs a good attorney maybe Dean can help as Gonzales knows nothing about law.
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