President Bush Congress Raid and the Creeping Coup

One wonders if President Bush's Attorney General's raid on the U.S. House of Congress office of Representative Jefferson of Louisiana was more than a Don Quixote on a donkey tilt at the independence of congress or an actual leverage against congressional independence that supports a corporatist agenda effectively?Certainly Representative Jefferson might have accepted an F.B.I. bribe, yet the raid into his congressional office was ill-advised and par with the A.G.'s other nefarious ideas about the constitution and executive branch so as to allow torture unless 'major organ failure' results and so forth.' Separated shoulders and such wouldn't count obviously.

The Bush administration's tedious tenure still has two years or so to run, yet hopefully congress will still be independent then, and the President won't have possession of congressional files 'sealed' perhaps to gain leverage for support on his personal legislative agenda perhaps including illegal aliens having a fast track to citizenship after paying the executive branch a suitable penalty.On my tax bill this year on 6000 dollars in earnings, even with the earned income credit the I.R.S. declared that I owe 60 some dollars. It doesn't pay to file a tax return with some self-employment included while homeless obviously...at least the very rich got a tax break this year, so the very poor must help make up the federal budget gap.

With Treasury Sect. Snow's dismissal and Mr. Paulson of Goldman Sach's taking over the U.S. Treasury won't have far to go to find it's Wall-Street corporatist kickback watch adviser. I hope my 60 dollars gets redistributed quickly through Mr. Paulson's office to Halliburton and other Texas based corporations, or at least subsidies for offshore oil drilling to help Exxon's record profits, maybe my unrecovered separated shoulder doesn't need so many bottles of Advil as it seems.It isn't hard to imagine why people abroad including Afghanistan have a less than perfect liking for the corporatist technique of plundering the public treasury wherever it is.
President Bush's two term policies seem to be reaching toward a culmination of the establishment of a creeping coup of corporatism to end democracy effectively in the United States.

The Senate is rather wussy, so the House of Representatives is the target of Presidential intimidation with the muled F.B.A. being a non sequiter as regards democracy in the U.S.A. it was used by Attorney General Gonzalez to raid the House of Representatives to seize political files and computer hardware recently.Perhaps the President will direct General Gonzalez to raid the Supreme Court to seize case files for legislation it differs with in order that it may be 'sealed' yet paid per view by the Justice's in case they need a knock on the head to remind them of who's boss. Of course with just one more nominee on the Bush court the Executive's Corporatist agenda can be rubber stamped by his lackeys should a recalcitrant House differ with his decretals to them (including perhaps the end of term limits, or restriction to eligibility for President to a relative of the incumbent).

What is Corporatism? It is a political philosophy innovated by Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Mussolini and other surpassing neo-liberalism or neo-conservativism, left or right. Public interest represented by government is nihilated over time to be replaced by non-representational private interest in corporate form. Wall-Street will lead the Treasury, Big Oil will lead government, the public will always have debt and its spending will be sluiced over too private corporate interests.Communism and Corporatism each are a form of authoritarianism.

Corporatism is the clear and present danger, and the Democratic Party's obsession with opposition to government building in Iraq is only a distraction from the need to protect representative democracy in the United States from corporatist coup.In the Corporatist system perhaps 30% of the elite or managerial class is non-creative, over-promoted thugs exploiting or destroying creative individuals and independent business under their stagnant, ossified Stalinist tyranny. They pacify Americans, flood in cheap labor from abroad, outsource work to China and India, plunder the public environment etc.John Raul's 'The Unconscious Civilization' is a good primer on the subject.