One reader writes:
Is this mess starting to sound like the history of Julius Caesar? We all know that the senate did ol' Caesar in to stop his harmful actions and incessant whining. Et tu Brutus!
Defiant Bush declares war on his own party's Senators
September 16, 2006 5:40 AM | Capital Hill Blue
An obviously-angry President George W. Bush declared war on Senators from his own party Friday after a Republican revolt in the Senate threatened tough anti-terror legislation that would allow torture of prisoners.
A defiant Bush rejected warnings that the United States had lost the high moral ground to adversaries.
"It's flawed logic," he snapped.
Bush is trying to rush his legislation through Congress, hoping a hyped sense of urgency will work as it did with the Constitution-defying USA Patriot Act that lawmakers passed without reading in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.
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Bush's bullying, erratic behavior, spurs more GOP defections
September 15, 2006
By DOUG THOMPSON
As Republicans continue to distance themselves from the political suicide of George W. Bush's policies and his failed war in Iraq, some are also privately expressing doubts about his mental stability, saying the President's erratic actions show a man increasingly out of control.
Even Bush's former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, tells confidants he feels the President has "buckled under the pressure" of the administration's increasingly unpopular and often contradictory actions.
That concern prompted Powell this week to publicly oppose Bush's proposed plan to ignore the guidelines of the Geneva Convention and give the military and Central Intelligence Agency the right to torture suspects in the so-called "war on terror."
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