> And it really doesn't look very democratic any more It isn't, this is the executive part of the government. That aside misgivings and thoughts of bad faith

> And it really doesn't look very democratic any more It isn't, this is the executive part of the government. That aside misgivings and thoughts of bad faith by the opposing side are not special phenomenon. I remember when Obama got in, Fox News got a temporary (1 year?) ban attending the whitehouse press conferences and panicking gun owners were making the cost of ammunition soar. He also has had a tendency to intervene in partisan issues, albeit most presidents are a little guilty of that. Before that G.Bush was going to put all the atheists into Jesus Camp according to the websites I was visiting then. This later turned out to be preposterous. An imperfect president but not a totalitarian one. A president/king is in the position where he has to balance power among multiple parties in order to accomplish a task. Even the likes of Saddam Hussein were in the same position.