From a Republic to a Monty Python Parrot: Bush and Congress Transform America

When onlookers asked Ben Franklin what sort of government the constitutional convention had produced, he told them "A republic, if you can keep it." Well, we haven't. We no longer live in a constitutional republic. Full Story »

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Scott Wilk
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by Scott Wilk - Oct. 1, 2008

If the question is, "Is this good journalism?", and all of the questions pertaining to "fairness" and such are to be considered in answer, then I suppose you'd be hard-pressed to say "yes". But as an opinion piece, it's brilliant. It's about as succinct a portrayal of exactly how completely around the twist this administration as led this country as I have seen. The Parrot Sketch anaology tends to trivialize the writer's argument, though, clever as it may be.

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