Bush’s latest executive signing statement claims that the executive branch has power to open mail in an emergency as it sees fit.

This latest salvo in the Bush-Cheney war on the U.S. Constitution is one more staking-out of executive power in territory that rightly belongs to the people of the United States.

Cheney’s New Paradigm of constitutional interpretation asserts near limitless executive power in this administration’s quest for an imperial presidency.

One has to wonder why Bush-Cheney engage in this relentless pursuit of the expansion of executive powers, if they believed that they might have to cede that newly ‘acquired’ power to a Democratic administration, which cessation one would assume should be anathema to the Republican Party.

Is this brazen power grab done for its own sake, or do these malefactors have a more insidious plan?

In my opinion, the day we see an 80% turnout of the voter eligible population, with the winner carrying 60% of that vote, I’ll call THAT a mandate.

http://elections.gmu.edu/voter_turnout.htm

Truman: 49.5 303
Dewey 45.0 189
Thurmond 2.5 39

1960:

Kennedy 49.9 303
Nixon 49.6 219

http://www.coloradocollege.edu/cc/AboutCC/What‘s New/Speeches/Loevy.html

….an interesting analysis of what influences elections results in this country….and food for thought when contemplating the ‘will of the American people’.