our elected dictator

Remember prior to the 2000 elections (was it during campaigning?) when then Governor Bush said, "I don't have a problem with a dictator, as long as it's me." [followed by his idiotic snicker]

He spent his first six months as President doing nothing extraordinary at all; in fact, most of his activity seemed centered around differentiating himself from his two predecessors, daddy-Bush and Bill Clinton. That wasn't going real well, so his took his first of many month-long vacations and returned to the White House just in time for 9/11. Ever since then, he's grabbed at every excuse he can when it's convenient to justify legislating from the throne. He ignores Congress - even the weak efforts at accountability the Republican controlled House have attempted are merely shrugged off. And when the Supreme Court has effectively slapped his hand for a minor offense, he just gets a law passed that makes his illegal behavior - poof - legal (and often retroactively, too).

This article in the Associate Press highlights just another in a long string of Bush's illegal, immoral actions as our elected dictator.
from Showdown Looms Over Domestic Spying:

"As a practical matter, the president can do whatever he wants as long as he has the capacity and executive branch officials to do it," said Carl Tobias, a legal scholar at the University of Richmond in Virginia.
...
"He could take the position he doesn't have to comply with whatever a new Congress says," said Vikram Amar, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings, and a former Supreme Court clerk.

Who is this Carl Tobias guy, and where did he go to law school? How on earth can he confuse the powers of an elected president with those of a hereditary king, or appointed dictator? And what Vikram Amar didn't say is that the President has alerady taken the position "that he doesn't have to comply with whatever a new Congress says," i.e. that he can break the law whenever he wants. You would think that, as with the illegal wiretapping, he'd lie about it and deceive the American people as long as he could (and often, he does act in that way). But he's actually put his intentions to break the law in writing in the form of "signing statements" - more than 100 times!

At least our dictator is term limited.

*emphasis mine