Reply #3: Swollen with Loyal Bushie hubris, perhaps even thinking himself a Royal Bushie [View All]

A courtier trusted so highly by the Imperial Family and their Party (it will continue to remain so) that he thought himself as one of them. Although I'll bet the Royals themselves did not.

In either case, let us thank God that there are still parts of the American System that function relatively honestly. It simply amazes me that, even with the nearly Full Sovietization/Bushification of the Executive Branch and all the myriad pressures that can be brought to bear on honest investigatiors and prosecutors to make them stop, that even at this late date so many myriad scandals are actually investigated & prosecuted at least at levels below the Royal Bushies and Consieglieres/etc.

So much of America still does work, it is just that few if any of the working parts are anywhere near the actual levers of power.

In either case, so long as these honest elements still exist (and if we are paying attention we will notice when they go fully silent), people's worst nightmares about the future, including my own, probably won't happen.

It's nothing close to the happy certainty of living in a strong democratic free nation with a vigorous and independent press, but it will have to do because it is all we have left.