William Rivers Pitt, at Truthout, has written an essay titled Bad, Worse, Worst, and Beyond. In it he lays out a strong argument that the administration's goals for America are being met. Their goals are privatization of government and the destruction of a system that has evolved over 200+ years
There is a man in the Oval Office of the White House working an agenda for the destruction of American government. His partner, Mr. Cheney, has been just down the hall taking care of the rest of the job.
For years, I've tried to figure out the method in the madness of King George to no avail. Katrina, Iraq, SCHIP, openly flaunting of the laws of our land, ad infinitum.
Subpoenas are ignored, documents are not delivered, Americans are put under surveillance without warrants by the NSA with assistance from nearly every phone company in the country, deep-cover CIA spies are blown to silence critics and whistleblowers, American citizens are imprisoned and denied rights that have been around for a thousand years, direct orders to fraudulently elevate terrorism threat levels are issued to provide cover for uncomfortable news reports, like the report on how many blunt warnings came in before 9/11 but were ignored got itself bounced to the back pages after the White House began yowling about the imminent destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty.
There is a pattern emerging here, and it ain't pretty. The main question now is Have these crooks and liars worked it through to 2008 and beyond? Have they planned their escape route, or do they intend to stay in power forever?
This is what has been done to America, and it turned out to be a frightfully simple task. Once the rule of law is gone, there is nothing left to defend American rights and freedoms, nothing left to bring justice to the unjust, nothing left to stop those powerful few who aren't about to let quaint anachronisms like the Constitution, or pesky ideas like the ones that became the United States, get in the way of their work.
Go and read the essay.