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The Bush administration is calling for a bailout of financial institutions that requires no transparency or accountability. A bailout without oversight and accountability is not democracy. This is a dictatorship asking a democracy to let an administration dictate policies that will affect the United States and the world community for years to come.

There they go again. The Bush administration is rushing through legislation crying calamity if Congress doesn’t do what they want right now.

The world economy may need a U.S. taxpayer-financed bailout to avert financial disaster, but the bailout requires oversight and transparency. The bailout also requires something for you and me and limits on what the rich bankers already get.

The bailout calls for no oversight of treasury secretary Henry Paulson. No oversight? He can do what he wants and Congress has no say? The courts have no say? U.S. citizens have no say? What ever happened to the Constitution? The Constitutions requires checks and balances within the three branches of government and respect for the will of the people. .

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Congress is supposed to say it’s okay to flout the Constitution for a crisis that the Bush administration and unethical bankers created? We are supposed to bail out the bankers who created the mess and give unbridled power to the people whose policies allowed the bankers to create the mess in the first place?

This is not democracy. This is dictatorship. The government is asking a democracy to let an administration dictate policies that will affect the United States and the world community for years to come.

The Bush administration rushed the country into war in Iraq. Look at the results. It is reckless of us to permit them to rush us into a bailout that gives the treasury secretary unbridled power.

This is like rewarding arsonists by giving them limitless access to fuel, matches, and forests.

Oversight now. Transparency now.

While we’re at it, why not relief for homeowners who have lost their homes or will soon? How about limits on the amount of money bankers are going to get in the bailout? How about limiting what they get to the minimum wage? To what I make. Some are saying limit the amount to what the president of the U.S. makes. Nah. Maybe limit them to what Governor Sarah Palin makes-that might work. She’s the hero and action figure for those who created this fiasco.