{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  The hairdresser is right. Senator Robert Byrd has served more than fifty years in the US Congress, is a respected lawmaker, and has worked with ten presidents before the latest one. But he now  finds himself so frustrated by the abuses of George W. Bush that he has written a book about it, \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003ELosing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency\u003C\/em\u003E  (Norton, 269 pp., \u0026pound;14.99, July, 0 393 05942 1). \u0026lsquo;Bush\u0026rsquo;s power,\u0026rsquo; he writes, \u0026lsquo;has been wielded with arrogance, calculation and disdain for dissenting views. The constitution\u0026rsquo;s careful separation of  powers has been breached, and its checks and balances circumvented. Behind closed doors, schemes have been hatched, with information denied to the legislative branch and policy-makers shielded from  informing the people or Congress.\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}