Subject: Our Monarchy: Larry we might as well be in a monarchy. And it's not a benevolent one either. In the story about President Bush attaching conditions to the court's EPA ruling, who does he think he is? First, he devises "signing statements" to congressional acts — duplicitously signing legislation while announcing that he'll be ignoring the new law from one branch of the government. Now Bush is attaching signing statements to Supreme Court decisions and blithely ignoring the second branch. It's long been clear that we have a president who is clueless and insolent about the very Constitution (especially separation of powers) he swore to uphold. Increasingly, it's even clearer that for him and his administration it's really always been La Constitution, c'est moi. Small wonder he so disdains the French. He's cribbing from them, or their 300-years-ago monarchs, at least. Carolyn T