Seems we are on the road to a constitutional showdown in regards to the firings of several US Attorneys for political reasons. Which is not illegal, nor is lying about it unless under oath. For six years the George Bush sailed through these slimy little political games because he had Congress in his hip pocket, next to his flask of Jack Nasty.
The Attorney’s stories all ring the same bell. They were fired because of GOP political pressure put on the Justice Department because they were not prosecuting enough Democrats, rvidence and witnesses be damned! In the past 5 years US Attorneys have prosecuted 260 Democrats and 70 Republicans. One example should clear this up easy enough.
Randy "Duke" Cunningham, premier Right-wing loon in Congress got caught last year taking $3 million dollars for his votes. Worst case of congressional graft in American History. He is presently serving 8 years at the People’s Hotel and Spa. Carol S. Lam, US Attorney for the San Diego area gained that indictment and the conviction. She was fired.
Both houses of congress are asking for subpoenas for members of the Bush Administration so the President took a big slug of Jack Nasty and regressed once again into his so successful BRING IT ON mode. He was on TV pointing his finger saying no subpoenas, no oaths, closed doors, no cameras, no recording, only transcripts with the Administration in control the venue. Senator Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judicial Committee told Bush to shove that up his ass. The House is soon to enter the fray. Constitutional Crisis! Where are the tapes?!
Almost 10 years ago I remember President Clinton, under subpoena sitting in that crazyass courtroom convened by every rabid Clinton hater in Arkansas to find out if his dick swung to the left or the right (no kidding). Even before he opened his mouth, I said, Bill, why in the hell are you sitting in that chair? Nothing good can come from it! I bet this isn’t Hillary’s idea! But Clinton had a problem, the House, the Senate and five political votes in the Supreme Court against him. Today Cowboy George can apply his personality disorder and swagger it out on this constitutional issue because he knows he has six political votes on the Supreme Court. Five of them already proved their political loyalties in 2000.
We are presently witnessing how the shift in congress is changing things. We are only slowly coming to see how 5 staunch conservative votes (and one conservative vote) on the Supreme Court are coming to change the very fabric of our society. If in the next twenty months 88 year old Justice John Stevens meets his maker, we are in really really big trouble for a really really long time.