The Bush Administration

George W. Bush, like many modern-day "Republicans," is fond of saying that the government ought to be run like a business. His business model is the corporation, ...and he could not be more wrong.

A corporation is a rigid, top-down, autocratic hierarchy in which executive orders are delivered as fiats to be implemented unquestioningly.

Few checks and balances exist.

Openness is rare; corporations are towers of secrecy, in which all information is considered a proprietary asset to be doled out only in approved snippets vetted through the Public Relations Department, keeping as much as possible from employees, investors, customers, auditors, regulators, lawmakers, the media, and We The People.

The American form of government is, in fact, quite the opposite. In a republic such as ours, the government gets its power from the informed consent of the citizens. This is why freedom of speech is so important, and freedom of the press.

The Bush Administration operates as if it were a corporation - much moreso than any previous administration, Republican or Democrat - and We the People get left out in the cold.