Mais avons-nous réussi enfin à créer la pire démocratie que le monde ait jamais connue? Peut-être bien

Tout le monde sait combien les progrès de la démocratie sont chers à notre cœur et réchauffent constamment notre âme fragile et craintive devant le sort que l’“axe du Mal” réserve à nos chères libertés publiques. Nous sommes très attentifs au déchaînement actuel de la vertu humaniste. Nous la suivons à la trace, — que dire, même — à l’odeur…

Nous ne pouvons donc résister au plaisir et au devoir à la fois de signaler de façon plus appuyée la référence d’un lecteur bienveillant (voir Franck Burgard sur le Forum du 19 octobre) pour un article de l’hebdomadaire Rolling Stone consacré au 109ème Congrès des Etats-Unis (celui qui nous quitte en attendant le 110ème qui sortira des urnes qu’on espère judicieusement informatisées le 7 novembre) — 109ème Congrès baptisé :

«The Worst Congress Ever», — c’est-à-dire, pour ceux qui aimeraient que dedefensa.org fasse son travail de traduction-adaptation : “le pire Congrès de l’histoire des Etats-Unis d’Amérique”.

Quelques extraits pour l’ambiance :

«But the 109th Congress is no mild departure from the norm, no slight deviation in an already-underwhelming history. No, this is nothing less than a historic shift in how our democracy is run. The Republicans who control this Congress are revolutionaries, and they have brought their revolutionary vision for the House and Senate quite unpleasantly to fruition. In the past six years they have castrated the political minority, abdicated their oversight responsibilities mandated by the Constitution, enacted a conscious policy of massive borrowing and unrestrained spending, and installed a host of semipermanent mechanisms for transferring legislative power to commercial interests. They aimed far lower than any other Congress has ever aimed, and they nailed their target.

»“The 109th Congress is so bad that it makes you wonder if democracy is a failed experiment,” says Jonathan Turley, a noted constitutional scholar and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington Law School. “I think that if the Framers went to Capitol Hill today, it would shake their confidence in the system they created. Congress has become an exercise of raw power with no principles — and in that environment corruption has flourished. The Republicans in Congress decided from the outset that their future would be inextricably tied to George Bush and his policies. It has become this sad session of members sitting down and drinking Kool-Aid delivered by Karl Rove. Congress became a mere extension of the White House.”

»The end result is a Congress that has hijacked the national treasury, frantically ceded power to the executive, and sold off the federal government in a private auction….»

Mis en ligne le 19 octobre 2006 à 15H18