Watching some selected news last night, it struck me that this is the first time that I can remember (or at least, when I cared about politics) that we have a government that is the closest to the Soviet Union's or a banana republic or an African state (am not referring to the color of the new Prez's skin). Am I wrong? When a tax cheat is OK'd by a bi-partisan group of senators - it drove home the fact that there is NO STOPPING the government from doing ANYTHING they want. I may seem naive in my just figuring...