George Bush, The Would-Be Despot

My Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary offers the following definitions:

- Would-be: desiring, professing or having the potential to be

- Despot: a ruler with absolute power and authority; a person exercising power abusively

Charlie Savage, writing for The Globe, reported on March 24 that after President Bush signed legislation renewing the PATRIOT Act, “the White House quietly issued a 'signing statement,’ an official document in which a president lays out his interpretation of a new law.

“(In the signing statement) Bush wrote: ‘The executive branch shall construe the provisions . . . in a manner consistent with the president's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch…’”

In other words, the President intends to interpret the law they way he sees fit…

In other words, the President (once gain) claims he is above the law…

In other words, George Bush is a would-be despot.