Interesting Salon article about Bush’s juggernaut of power grabbing.

Crisis is what we are facing now. Public opinion has decisively turned against the president’s war in Iraq, with voters dissenting where our system says they should — at the polls. Congress, the supposed locus of the power to “declare war,” is belatedly registering its disapproval of Bush’s inept conduct of that war. Even the normally secretive military and national-security bureaucracies are busily signaling their objections to the commander in chief’s plans.

In virtually any other advanced democracy in the world, government personnel and policy would by now reflect this political earthquake: Either the chief executive would have resigned, or the parties would have coalesced in a government of national unity. But here, the repudiated leader is escalating his war and proclaiming, “I’m the decision maker.” Regarding Congress, Bush said during a recent “60 Minutes” interview, “They could try to stop me from doing it. But I made my decision, and we’re going forward.” And now the president appears to be barreling toward a confrontation with Iran.