Bushevism is completely un-American: "I am the king. Therefore, I'm the law." It was precisely to reject such monarchism that the US was, as a republic, created in the first place.
Clearly, Bush doesn't know what "unchecked" means, not just because he's ignorant, but because he cannot comprehend the notion of some entity beyond himself, some entity outside "his" branch of government, exerting any influence at all upon his actions. As far as he's concerned, it's his job, and his alone, to "safeguard" our civil liberties, just as it's his job to wage war against the Evil Ones. He thinks that "oversight" means that His Majesty tells Congress what he wants to tell them, and does so when he feels like doing it.
When “w” was asked recently if the global war on terror is going to last for decades, as has been forecast, does that mean that we're going to see, therefore, a more or less permanent expansion of the unchecked power of the executive in American society?" His Majesty was most annoyed:
Small wonder that the people of this nation never voted to elect or re-elect George W. Bush as president. He lacks a fundamental understanding of the principles on which the American republic was founded. He just doesn't get it. And he gets angry if you even question him, which is itself further disproof of his bizarre contention that his power is somehow "checked" by his own regal self-restraint.
Again, Bush gets away with such tyrannical absurdity because the press won't call him on it. Neither will the Democrats.
Georgia law - essentially the re-imposition of a poll tax - relates to the Republicans' intentions vis-à-vis the Voting Rights Act, which they intend to gut. That law's up for renewal - and the party is purporting to desire certain "improvements" in it, which should make us very nervous, because their aim is to "improve" the Voting Rights Act much as they attempted to "improve" Social Security. "Improve" is Bushspeak, or Orwellian, for "destroy." What the party wants is to excise certain provisions from the law, so that it can then be invalidated by the Supreme Court. Once the Voting Rights Act is kaput, the states will be emancipated to pass ever more laws like the Georgia law: laws that then won't be repealed. Similar laws have been passed recently in Indiana and Arizona. All of this is meant to help ensure the party's permanent majority - or perhaps "dominion" is a better word.
We can have little hope of any difference in the rulings of Chief Justice Roberts and, Alito, whose main attraction for the right, I'd argue, is their staunch adherence to the segregationist position of William Rehnquist, who, as the press and Democrats have never adequately noted, made his bones, back in the early Sixties, trying to disenfranchise Hispanic voters in Arizona.
You connect those dots, and then connect them to the scandals now racking the GOP, because they also have to do primarily with election fraud. Tom DeLay's troubles stem directly from his close involvement in the party's efforts to subvert democracy through the construction of a permanent "majority." The gerrymandering in Texas, and the program to monopolize K Street, were both intended to help further weaken the electorate.
Fear for our Republic when these abuses are allowed.