Republicans in Congress also must realize that their fervent desire to blindly protect their President, and their own culpability in his abuses, may lead to a 25 year bomb proof Democratic majority, richly deserved if for nothing else than the abusive Clinton impeachment (when Bin Laden otherwise may well have been dispatched after the Africa US embassy bombings).
Mr. Bush’s imaginary “executive privilege” covers everything he’s ever done, because the primeval tar pit of his malfeasance is so vast. But if Congress doesn’t force the issue, all investigations will grind to a halt, and the Congress will be forever weakened by this Administration’s defiance. "If we do not enforce this subpoena, no one will ever have to come before the Judiciary Committee again," John Conyers said.
Mr. Bush, judging by the Vietnam shirker and neo-deserter’s vicious slander of bemedaled war hero John Kerry, isn’t very good at history either. He forgot the recent searing lessons of Vietnam on the folly of occupying a violent alien country against a guerrilla war, and blithely allowed the looting of 40% of the heavy munitions that are blasting Iraq to pieces with IED’s.
Since this administration’s contempt knows no bounds- it’s time to put impeachment back on the table (which Pelosi foolishly removed), because that is the prescribed Constitutional cure for a wanton, destructive, dishonest, insufferable, out of control leader.
Louis 16th, who precipitated the French Revolution by overruling and bypassing his Parliament, had it a little harder. You might say, he lost his head.
Michael Hammerschlag's commentary and articles (HAMMERNEWS.com) have appeared in International Herald Tribune, Seattle Times, Providence Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, Hawaii Advertiser, Capital Times, MediaChannel; and Moscow News, Tribune, Times, and Guardian. In Russia now, he broke the first story on the media mistakes in the 2000 election, examined Dean’s destruction and the Cheney shooting, and analyzed the disaster of Iraq from 5 months before the invasion.
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