Jon Alter on Imus---says the WH is inoculating itself against prosecution. He
talked of how the WH has replaced 9 Attorney Generals with loyalists, and the newest Signing Statement which directs heads of Fed depts to be run by political cronies and then he went into the problems with Cheney. Says hopes Congress does it job of 'looking back' (lots of talk of only looking forward by the congressional investigative committees such as the committee run by Joe Lieberman who is looking at Katrina).
6. Interesting... bushco got away with SO much for so long
all sorts of insidious stuff under the radar. They must be in perpetual battle mode about now - as things get unearthed and widely reported - yet they keep behaving in a tyranical way. They seem hell-bent on two things:
1) Do as much damage at the administrative level (eg get in and completely muck up the federal agencies - probably with designs ala Enron and energy deregulation that was enabled by rules passed in the last days of the first bush admin)
and - not intentionally but certainly
2) Completely take down their own party. Hard to see how the GOP can bounce back anytime soon from the public's awareness of the venality of their actions. So much worse than Nixon's watergate.
a coup d'etat. Norquist was right.. they've drowned democracy in a bathtub and our constitution with it. Will congress stop this madness or will it take another civil war ???
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