Springtime for Chimpy
From the All Spin Zone:
And the thing that got me was this:
As I said a little over a month ago:
Great thanks to Skippy for the ASZ link.
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Today, the newspaper of record, the one which was the blunt instrument of destruction of the Nixon administration, has finally placed George Bush in the crosshairs. In consciously invoking a play on some of the most damning words of the Watergate scandal, the Bush administration has been put on notice: the end is near.
Somewhere, Katherine Graham is smiling.
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And the thing that got me was this:
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"And so we will put in place programs to protect the American people that honor the civil liberties of our people, and programs that we constantly brief to Congress," Mr. Bush assured the country yesterday, as he brushed off requests for a more detailed account. But this is exactly the point of contention. The administration, it appears from Mr. Comey's testimony, was willing to go forward, against legal advice, with a program that the Justice Department had concluded did not "honor the civil liberties of our people." Nor is it clear that Congress was adequately informed. The president would like to make this unpleasant controversy disappear behind the national security curtain. That cannot be allowed to happen.
As I said a little over a month ago:
By the way, as Spring arrives, do you catch a faint scent of Watergate on the breeze lately? Heh ...
Great thanks to Skippy for the ASZ link.
Cross-posted at the Brain.
Posted by Fixer at 06:50
1 Comments:
My prediction is that we will shortly see the resurgence of any number of dormant Bush scandals that had fizzled before 2006.
They have 100% given up on ever getting back to 51%, and everyone who had hitched to their wagon realizes it is never coming back. They have no successor to protect, and they have no realistic chance of taking back either house of congress. They are just going to exercise whatever institutional authority they have to make policy, hole up in the bunker and give up on PR. I wont be surprised if they fire the press secretary.
They are second semester seniors, they just dont fuckin care what kind of marks they get. The consequence is that they are not going to invest the kind of time they used to in covering up. And they have less power with which to buy silence. All they can do is quietly huddle together for warmth, and ignore subpoenas, veto, and issue executive orders.
An executive under seige is an excellent test of its raw, mechanical, constitutional power.
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