Why The Hell ISN'T Congress RIPPING Into The Bush/Cheney SECRET ENERGY POLICIES?

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When are we going to finally begin HOLDING BUSH/CHENEY responsible for the greatest financial/environmental disasters this nation has faced in the last 50 years? Why do we continue sidestepping the facts before us by ignoring the main genesis root CAUSE of that ushered in BOTH disasters?




posted on Buzzflash May 13 2010:




" I know -- we’re not supposed to “look back but ahead.” That’s become a virtual bi-partisan slogan.
Republicans don’t want to look back because, "back there" is all the stuff that got their party run out of power. And Democrats don’t want to look back because they fear it would only make already unpleasant Republicans angry, and making Republicans angry is apparently something Democrats fear more than anything else.



As a result the GW Bush administration has been granted a defacto immunity bath for an 8-year wave of crime, misdeeds and policy disasters. And this blind-eye to the past persists even as we continue suffering the results of those policies, deeds and crimes.



Republicans prefer to frame any attempt to review of Bush-era policies as simply Democrats seeking political cover for their own failures. But, as is their way, the GOP’s take on all this turns the argument on its head: Democrats fail, for sure. But, in this case, their failure is a failure to look, their failure to uphold domestic and international laws and the US Constitution and their sworn responsibilities under that constitution.



So let me venture ever so boldly into that backward thinking paradigm and ask again; why the hell isn't Congress ripping into the Bush/Cheney secret energy policies, even though the Gulf of Mexico and the citizens whose lives and livelihoods are being destroyed before their eyes? If not now, when?



A sane person would assume that, with such an enormous disaster on the news every night, those in charge would be interested in finding out precisely what it was that Dick Cheney and the head of BP decided during their secret 2001 meetings.




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[KonaKane]

1. Because they have no concept of time.

Even today, you will catch the wingnuts lamenting something about Clinton, who left office ten years ago. Yet when you bring up Bush, they scream back "Bush is gone! That's in the past!"

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4. We need to forget about the ' resistance noise ' being generated on cue and pushback by appointing a

Special Prosecutor armed with investigatory & subpoena power to pursue the evidence wherever that may take them.

[notesdev]

2. Two reasons

one... most of them voted for it

two... most of them are getting money from the people who benefit by it

[villager]

3. Reason two, especially...

n/t

[Hydra]

5. Simple- it's business as usual in Washington

Had there not been this spill, we'd be happily chugging along. The current administration doesn't even bother to repudiate past conduct, let alone do something else, like stop it.

The worst part is that any candidate that runs on "Change" in the next 20 years will be laughed at.

[Scuba]

6. Because they're complicit

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9. And we have become ' comfortably numb and complacent '. Our continuing ' inaction ' to demand

justice be served warm on a plate EQUALLY to those who broke the law only breathes more life at maintaining a selective two-tier system of governance. One tier belongs to the powerfully wealthy & privileged who seem to think that the laws of this land were specifically created and intended to be applicable for others and NOT them. They continue to entertain the perception of privilege that they themselves, along with their brood, are far removed from observing such laws while the other tier belongs to working stiffs like ourselves who are thrown into jail at the mere thought of breaking the law.

[Scuba]

10. I'm with you. How do we "demand" justice?

[watrwefitinfor]

7. Because Cheney's devil spawn might go on national tv

and spew venom and lies at them.

Wat

[BeFree]

8. heh

The criminals are walking, free and richer.
The Gulf is their sign they have been here.

How in the hell can their actions just be ignored like this?

And how did they get elected to start with?
They didn't, they stole office, and that too is ignored.

[spanone]

11. because we live in an era of no responsibility for anyfuckingthing

[Occulus]

12. Except for smoking a joint,

or putting an air rifle into your trunk before class, or any of a hundred little things that little people get in deep trouble for.

:grr:

[Echo In Light]

14. Yes, but that benefits the Powerful over the Weak, which is ALL american

[Scuba]

13. Only true if you're rich

[Echo In Light]

15. Kick