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Leonard Pitts latest – King George?

15 Jul

Court ruling a blow to pride of King George

With apologies to the makers of the 1994 film, it’s never been ”the madness of King George” that troubled me.

No, it was the arrogance, a hubris so awesome and awful you tended to forget George is not, in fact, a king but a president. One might have been forgiven for forgetting, since President George W. Bush has governed pretty much as a King George would have: by fiat and decree.
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