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Bush would do well to remember that “what the Lord Giveth, can be taken away.” [Job 1: 20-21]. The President rode into the White House on the tail of the Supreme Court, but his undoing may turn out to be on the tail of US attorneys who refuse to wag the dog.
The story is beginning to unravel – the hard part will be finding the legal points on which to pin the charges and then prove them. Even David Boies, Gore’s infamous defense attorney during the 2000 election showdown, said Tuesday night on Keith Olbermann, that at this point does he not think there is any criminal malfeasance here. Ethical issues, yes, but not criminal. Isn’t the fact that Gonzales lied to Congress about his involvement a crime? The emails released Tuesday clearly show that he was in the loop, as was Rove.
Maybe when the same WH officials who have been lying to the public for the last 6 years treat Congress to the same in their own sacred halls, it becomes personal and it dawns on them that something is rotten in Denmark.
Finally, Sen. Schumer has found a sweet spot, not that there weren’t many that were ripe for picking before this. But Schumer seems to think this could be the Big One, an issue that could gather enough steam to start to undo the Republican dirty trick campaigns that have been plaguing the Democrats for the last two decades (and not coincidentally make his own political career). See the transcript of Schumer’s comments that lists each of the false statements made to Congress in carefully articulated detail: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002740.php Maybe lying to Congress gets our representatives angry in a way that doesn’t affect them when the White House lies to the public. Go Chuck!
Now I don’t pretend to be a lawyer or have the mind of a Boies, but isn’t executive attempt to take over the judicial branch treasonous if not ‘illegal’? Isn’t it a subversion of the very Constitution that Bush swore to uphold after the Supreme Court handed him the presidency?
Just asking.
