One Party Rule (aka fascism) goal of GOP

Here is an editorial explaining something that I have been warning people about for many years. Perhaps the highly educated writers in the New York Times do a better job of explaining it than I have been able to. Basically, it shows how the modern Republican party differentiates itself from other parties in American history. Rather than be a source of ideas and proposals - the GOP of the past 25 years is in fact a "movement" designed to take over ALL power in this country and keep it indefinitely. George W. Bush and Karl Rove are the best at it but they were not the first and won't be the last. It is not democratic, it is not people powered and it is not American in any way. It is just the most recent version of fascism and it's right here in the USA.

Turn over a scandal in Washington these days and the chances are you’ll find Karl Rove. His tracks are everywhere: whether it’s helping to purge United States attorneys, coaching bureaucrats on how to spend taxpayers’ money to promote Republican candidates, hijacking the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives for partisan politics, or helping to organize a hit on the character of one of the first people to publicly reveal the twisting of intelligence reports on Iraq. Whatever the immediate objective, Mr. Rove seems focused on one overarching goal: creating a permanent Republican majority, even if that means politicizing every aspect of the White House and subverting the governmental functions of the executive branch.

After his re-election in 2004, President Bush formally put Mr. Rove in charge of all domestic policy. Mr. Rove’s efforts to maintain one-party rule go deep into the government. Last week, we learned about a meeting set up by Mr. Rove’s staff with officials of the General Services Administration that was wildly inappropriate and perhaps illegal. The aim, as outlined by Mr. Rove’s deputy, Scott Jennings, seems to have been to take advantage of the billions of dollars in contracts put out by the agency every year to return Republicans to the majority in Congress in 2008.