"When the US Attorney scandal first broke in March, I told you that this scandal could be George Bush's Watergate." So reads one of the introductory sentences to the latest DNC missive, exhorting us to yet more donations to "send a message to the Bush administration." If it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, sure, by all means send Howard Dean another check, but first think about this: Maybe this isn't Bush's Watergate, but Bush's $100,000 tax break - that is, something totally completely vile and despicable that the voters just don't care about at all. Anyone remember how stupid Mark Taylor looked going on and on and on and on and on and on (and on) about Sonny's land deals and various other nefarious shady dealings? What if they had a scandal, and no one cared?
That "no one cares" situation is where we are with the former attorney general. Gonezales was a base swine immoral lying SOB, and YAY now he's gone. Where do we go from here? Patrick Leahy said that the investigation isn't over. Why shouldn't it be over? The people who actually committed the illegal acts - Monica Goodling, for example - got immunity in exchange for telling us about some despicable stuff going on at the DOJ. The architect of those policies, as well as many other policies which constitute crimes against humanity, has resigned to go have a nice shot of Scotch with Karl Rove. Did Gonezales commit an illegal act in the course of this whole sordid affair? The point is not so much whether he did or not (I'd be surprised if he didn't), but that the political capital required to bring him to trial and conviction does not exist, and wouldn't be worth expending if it did.
If there were justice in the world, Alberto Gonezales would be experiencing pain comparable to organ failure or death right now, since those "quaint" Geneva Conventions clearly don't apply to Godforsaken subprotazoan scumball wannabees like him. The continued existence of Dubya, unfortunately, argues strongly against the existence of such justice, and until the Rapture ensues we are forced to weigh principles - all Gonezales, all the time, until he sleeps with the fishes - with the political reality that there is no more hay to be made here, and we'll look vindictive and ineffectual (while Rome burns) if we try. So I say this: No more subpoenas to the DOJ until we're out of Iraq. Let's get our damn priorities straight, shall we?
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More money? The DNC wants more money for this?
Well, they aren't getting mine, but they had a better shot than John Edwards. I swear to God, every time a mouse farts around here, Joe Trippi is sending me a goddamn email asking me for a new donation so John Edwards (who, since he left the Senate, is a officially NOBODY who for the next 18 months can't change CRAP) can fight mouse farts and the "They" that don't want him to be president. Today was no exception: Trippi wants more money on occasion of Gonezales so that Pony Boy can, I don't know, hire his own pretend Attorney General or something.
Give it a rest, Trippi. Jesus.
They really are exhausting the base with these relentless emails. It's no wonder they have a 30% attrition rate per year.
We play a little game, the DNC and I. They send yet another lame pitch for money, so I unsubscribe from the list. But the next time I post an event on Party Builder, boom! I'm back on.
So I unsubscribe again, and again, and again. It's no use. I'm trapped in the DNC vortex.
I say sue him out of existence for wrongful termination. There are at least eight plantiffs, so it should keep his life nice and miserable for a long time.
Bush pardon = one more nail in the coffin for "dubya" and his permanent majority.
But it's so cute how people think we'll get an agenda pushed through while Bush is president. We'll either have to shut down the government or impeach him to get any movement. Of course, the way he is currently blockading the required spending bills, this shouldn't be too hard to acheive without Dem leadership collapse.
Maybe some members of senior leadership ... oh, I don't know, Biden perhaps? could make this a special project.
The above obstinancy of Bush is why I'm down with burning every last one of his cronies (so many Executive Departments left) until it's down to just him and Cheney. And then finally being sure the door *does* hit them on the ass on the way out, namely impeachment. If you must criminally prosecute after office, then do it.
And yeah, as for DNC moneys ... how about we scrap that little FISA thing (because Congress can revise laws whenever it wants if it wrote them too hastily, but oh damn! there's that Presidential pen again) and we'll move along?
One other thing that was be nice at DOJ:
Removal and disbarment of all attorneys with degrees from Regent "University."