Fixing the Game - NYTimes

[Cassandra]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/05/opinion/05mon1.html

"The rules of American democracy say every president may install his own team of like-minded people in the government - even at a place like the Justice Department, which is at its root a law-enforcement agency and not a campaign branch office. But the Bush administration seems to be losing sight of the fact that the rules also say the majority party of the moment may not use its powers to strip citizens of their rights, politicize the judicial system or rig the election process to keep itself in office.
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Mr. Bush and his team don't understand that they merely hold the current majority in a system designed to bring periodic changes in the governing party and to protect the rights and values of the minority party. The idea that the winners should trash the system to make sure the democratic process ended with them was discredited back around the time of the Bolsheviks."

Nice. :-)

[salin]

1. ouch

finally seeing more and more references to the K Street Project - but I think we are a long way from that entering the public psyche. Wish it would - as it is at the core of the corruption in DC Pay to Play/Slush FUnd politics.

[acmavm]

2. Ask the average American what the K Street Project is and you'll either

get a blank stare of they'll tell you it's got something to do with Sesame Street. They're clueless.