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May. 18th, 2007
The fruits of arrogance.
May. 18th, 2007 02:03 amThis is why voting matters. I made sure to take my mom to the polls because I wanted something other than one-party rule (which is so anti-American I can't even start to get into it). Karl Rove said he had the math, but in the end both houses of Congress fell to the Democrats.
And the investigations started.
They never saw it coming. I really think they thought they had eight full years to jimmy the whole nation, Constitution be damned. They never considered how Katrina would be the rupture in the dike of the seemingly impenetrable Bush administration. They tried to plug it and regain their smooth image, but it was all undone from that moment on.
Democrats were swept into Congressional power, and still the administration went forward with the plan to sack the eight (or nine, or ten, or twenty-six, depending on whose count) United States Attorneys. Did the folks in the administration really believe that the only accountability moment was the 2004 election? I think they did.
Now, we have Kelly O'Donnell asking Mr. Bush if he personally dispatched then-counsel Alberto Gonzales and former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card to the bedside of ailing then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to have him sign off on the wiretapping issue. Bush equivocates. In the Rose Garden. On national TV. She asks again. He evades again.
Now we have the Washington Post talking in plain terms about the seriousness of the President's conduct:
We are living through history, folks.
And kudos to James Comey, tying together the US Attorneys scandal with the wiretapping scandal with his incredible testimony to the Senate this week.
And the investigations started.
They never saw it coming. I really think they thought they had eight full years to jimmy the whole nation, Constitution be damned. They never considered how Katrina would be the rupture in the dike of the seemingly impenetrable Bush administration. They tried to plug it and regain their smooth image, but it was all undone from that moment on.
Democrats were swept into Congressional power, and still the administration went forward with the plan to sack the eight (or nine, or ten, or twenty-six, depending on whose count) United States Attorneys. Did the folks in the administration really believe that the only accountability moment was the 2004 election? I think they did.
Now, we have Kelly O'Donnell asking Mr. Bush if he personally dispatched then-counsel Alberto Gonzales and former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card to the bedside of ailing then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to have him sign off on the wiretapping issue. Bush equivocates. In the Rose Garden. On national TV. She asks again. He evades again.
Now we have the Washington Post talking in plain terms about the seriousness of the President's conduct:
IT DOESN'T much matter whether President Bush was the one who phoned Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's hospital room before the Wednesday Night Ambush in 2004. It matters enormously, however, whether the president was willing to have his White House aides try to strong-arm the gravely ill attorney general into overruling the Justice Department's legal views. It matters enormously whether the president, once that mission failed, was willing nonetheless to proceed with a program whose legality had been called into question by the Justice Department. That is why Mr. Bush's response to questions about the program yesterday was so inadequate.
We are living through history, folks.
And kudos to James Comey, tying together the US Attorneys scandal with the wiretapping scandal with his incredible testimony to the Senate this week.