See shrub drunk...
{and not with power...}

shrub - at it again...

John Brady Kiesling also grasped the shift to empire – away from republic – that is underpinning Bush's policies. The career diplomat asked,

"Has

'oderint dum metuant'

really become our motto?"

citing a favorite saying of the mad Roman emperor Caligula,
which means

"Let them hate so long as they fear."