Issue: GOP Tilting Balance Of Power to the Right

Specific: "House Republicans, for instance, discarded the seniority system and limited the independence and prerogatives of committee chairmen. The result is a chamber effectively run by a handful of GOP leaders. At the White House, Bush has tightened the reins on Cabinet members, centralizing the most important decisions among a tight group of West Wing loyalists. With the strong encouragement of Vice President Cheney, he has also moved to expand the amount of executive branch information that can be legally shielded from Congress, the courts and the public"

Comment: Without being a conspiracy theorist, this continues the notion of the pattern I've been seeing for years. This was not my father's Republican party. My father was not into power for the sake of power. He was not in secretive powers and abilities. Yet it is from the work of my Father's Republican party, that the current Republican party has used to gain power. It is off the power of the Dot.Com boom and bust that the current Republican party has used to gain members to my Father's Republican party. And it this current Republican party that used Bill Clinton to wrench control from my Father's version of a Republican Party and the country.

9/11 only made the current Republicans' job easier. If it had not happened, they would have found something else as a excuse. Their policies have changed governance by elected officials and representatives into an MBA government. We are being lead by a CEO, not a President.

My Father's version of a Republican party wanted a President of the people, akin to Abraham Lincoln, not a CEO, akin to Ken Lay of Enron.