The Excesses of an American Caesar

Some of Rome's rulers were competent, but many of the Caesars were simply besotted with power and excess was the daily order of things. They were vain, petty, incompetent men who had no idea how to rule the Roman Empire and they eventually frittered away a 1000-year old civilization. The terms "vain" and "petty" and "incompetent" remind me of the current occupant of the White House.

Do these words not describe a man who, although we are allegedly in the throes of a budget crisis, actually rents barricades and pays guards to block military veterans and American citizens from their national monuments? Yet who allows a pro-immigration rally to occur on the National Mall without any harassment from his Gestapo? Who tries to force private concessionaires on or near national parks to close? Who cuts off death benefits to the families of American military personnel killed in the line of duty? Who plays cards in another room and then flies off to a fund-raiser in Las Vegas while his Ambassador to Libya is being murdered along with other brave Americans? Who rolls up the largest budget deficits ever and derides the Republicans for not allowing him to keep using the credit card? 

In a democracy we have no excuse - we get what we vote for. We have someone now who is doing in a few short years what it took a whole line of Caesars decades to accomplish. This is a vain, egotistical, petulant and incompetent little man. I pray that the House will hold the line until next year when Americans again get a chance to determine the direction of this once noble Republic.