Bush Renegades vs the People

Last night the Senate Democrats and John Warner came up with compromise language for a resolution to express the Senate's opposition to the troop build-up in Iraq. Contrary to the views in the mainstream media, the conflict over the Senate resolution is not mainly over whether the President or the Democrats are going to win. Instead, the conflict is over whether the United States is going to have any government that represents the public. Now that the public opposes the Iraq War by overwhelming majorities, the Bush administration has abandoned the broader idea of representative government and has retreated to the President's narrower constitutional mandate as commander-in-chief of the military. The question before the Senate if whether Congress is going to take up the burden of representing the American public in opposition to the renegade presidency of George W. Bush. It appears that the Senate is hesitatingly moving to fulfill that task.