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How Congress Can Speed the Downfall of the Bushites
By Andrew Bard Schmookler (about the author) Page 3 of 4 page(s)
Meanwhile, the United States of America desperately needs for the Congress to do the vital work of cleansing the nation of this criminal regime and repairing the damage that it has done. Two main tasks need doing:
**The nation needs to be protected from further damage by the Bushites disgraceful and incompetent war-making (see for example my essay, "Tie the President's Hands Re War-Making in Iran," at www.google.com);
**The United States needs for Congress to uphold the rule of law, challenging the notion of unchecked presidential powers, repealing unconstitutional laws (like the Military Commissions Act), and holding administration law-breakers accountable for their actions.
So vital and urgent is the need to accomplish those two tasks that it might be worthwhile to sacrifice a bit of justice to assure that at least this much justice is achieved. It is in the context of this concern that I would like to propose a possible political deal, something along the lines of a plea bargain.
SHOULD THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS BE OFFERED A PLEA BARGAIN?
The more the two parties in Congress are diverted by the competition with each other, the less they will be able to achieve in reining in and discrediting this criminal Bushite regime. The more the Republicans use partisan tactics to defend this presidency, the harder it will be for the Democrats to feel safe and empowered to go after the crimes and lies of the Bushites. The more the Democrats seek partisan advantage out of his Bushite disaster, the less the Republicans will help do what needs doing.
One way out of this dilemma could be for the Democrats to offer the Republicans some kind of "plea bargain." In exchange for the Republicans turning "state's evidence"-- i.e. helping to tell the American people the truth about this regime-- the Democrats will exercise SOME degree of restraint in exploiting the political advantage over these congressional Republicans that this disaster of a Republican presidency might offer them.
(And the "carrot" of the offer of such a possible arrangement should be accompanied by the corresponding "stick" of hard-knuckle campaigning to make sure that the gangrene Michael Green talks about fully infects the candidacies of those Republicans who continue to protect this corrupt presidency.)
Just what all the terms of such a "plea bargain" might be would have to be worked out, with the degree of the Republican cooperation being connected with the degree of the Democratic restraint.
At the minimum, what this might mean could be: 1) the Republicans agree to cooperate in the setting up and the conduct of hearings, allowing the truth to come out fully; 2) in exchange, the Democrats agree to share with them, in the media, the public posture of being the restorers of American democracy and of respectable conduct in the world.
It might be argued that the Republicans deserve no such clemency, having been such bootlickers of this fascist power that took over their party. I would wholeheartedly agree with that argument.
But if a degree of clemency is required to achieve the necessary purging of this country's body politic of these Bushite forces, then a plea bargain, even if undeserved, might serve the greater cause of justice.
TAKING THE LONG VIEW
This Bushite presidency has been enormous-- both in the usual sense of being huge (in the magnitude of its impact) and in the more archaic sense of being a grotesque and exceedingly wicked thing. This has been the most powerful embodiment of evil in the history of American civilization.
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