Our New Sun King

Louis XIV, a despotic monarch, famously said L’etat c’est moi — I am the state.

Obama is inching in that direction.  He clearly does not see himself as part of a constitutional republic.  Instead, he views America’s “winner takes all” approach to elections, not as a two party process that’s designed to create a stability lacking in parliamentary government, but as the start of a journey that vests all and permanent power in him and his party.  Petty little things like rules, constitutions, laws, honest government, etc., are in his way, and should be discounted entirely, whenever necessary.