Summing up: These guys, at least those few who remain with Cheney, Addington, Gonzales, Hadley and Bush down in the White House bunker, are getting nervous about their criminal liability as more of their high crimes and misdemeanors are revealed to the public. They would be even more anxious if an impeachment process were to begin.
So far, the Democrats have shied away from taking on CheneyBush frontally with impeachment hearings and arrest warrants for Administration officials who have refused to honor subpoenas to appear and testify and/or provide requested documents. (Remember that the failure to produce subpoenaed documents was one of the three impeachment charges against President Richard Nixon.)
It is possible that as more reports about the thugs in charge of the White House appear in both the internet and via the filter of a somewhat more courageoius corporate news media, the public will come to understand how CheneyBush forces are effectively destroying the Constitution and expanding already-begun wars and preparing to initiate new ones, thus putting both the economy and America's national-security interests at risk.
At that point, if and when we reach it, the dam holding back red-hot Democratic and even mainstream Republican anger will break, and the public will demand that Congress act to save the country from further ruin by initiating impeachment hearings ASAP. Recent polls indicate the American public is moving inexorably toward that tipping point. The question is: Will they move quickly enough?
It's long since time for the CheneyBush Bunker crew to be forced to defend themselves in such impeachment hearings in Congress and, later, in front of criminal and civil juries both here and abroad.
Do I hear an amen? #
Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at universities in California and Washington, worked as a writer/editor for the San Francisco Chronicle for two decades, and currently is co-editor of The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org). To comment: crisispapers@comcast.net .
First published by The Crisis Papers and Democratic Underground 8/21/07. www.crisispapers.org/essays7w/losers.htm
Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at universities in California and Washington, worked for two decades as a writer-editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, and currently serves as co-editor of The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org).
i remember being quite sure that the alerts were political in nature. you say that ridge admitted it? i never saw that.
do you have any links?
thanks for your good work.
joanB
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Joan Brunwasser (164 articles, 3539 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 634 comments)
on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 9:24:11 PM
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