Dumbfounded

That's what I was when I read this quote from Ben Stein at Lawyers, Guns & Money:

This is not how the U.S. government is supposed to work. This is how a South American junta does its work with a puppet legislature and a supreme Caudillo above law. This is, tragically, Barack Obama’s America. It took a mere 14 months to get us from the government of Jefferson to the government of Trujillo.

You may remember Stein as the creator of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, the laughable film that attempted to discredit evolution, which should give you an idea of what we're dealing with here.

As for the substance of Stein's remarks, all I can say is: We had that and rejected it. It's known as the "Bush Administration."