My belief is the stench of lies and "bad form" will hang on Bush

[PretzelWarrior]

even if ultimately no perp walks take place over the whole Plame affair. Think about it. Even a Mormon farmer plowing his field in Utah or a Texas small business man is going to think it odd that this kind of thing OBVIOUSLY DID HAPPEN and no one is paying a price. Well, one person is...and it is a journalist who DIDN'T contribute to the crime of exposing identity of an undercover CIA agent.

I liked what Michael Issikof (sp) said about this. If NO INDICTMENTS are brought against anyone and FItzgerald shuts down his investigation with zero, zip, nada....the idea that he enforced the request for this woman's testimony causing a judge to send her to jail in contemt would show what a sad situation we are in. Throwing journalists in jail on a whim would be the new "norm".

A person could raise any and all investigations that would allow similar supoenas of journalists on petty items of testimony and a harrassment of the press could begin in full force.

The regular American man and woman is a decent person and will not stand for sustained abuse of power. THey will see through the facade of nice photo ops of Bush. They will take the measure of the man and find him wanting. In fact, they may be hard pressed to still call him a "man".

There's a legal aspect to this. But there's also a moral aspect and seemingly most important--a political aspect.

[Erika]

1. Yes

Bush's legacy will not include morality. It will show that through the corrupt types such as Rove, that he did have a fantastic political machine well oiled by corporatists.

[jmcon007]

2. Well said.

[wli]

3. no, not quite

Bush is being taken down by his "masters" so to speak (really just wherever his money is coming from). There are no general rules to infer from any of this. It's pure selective enforcement: Bush botched so many coverups he's gotten to the verge of WWIII, which is not a profitable affair.

I'd expect a general pullout of multinational financial interests from the US after this given the preponderance of economic damage also.

[enough]

4. I truly wish I could agree with you.

Unfortunately, I don't think "the regular American man or woman" is paying enough attention to the actual facts to pick up on the reality. Only if the corporate media decides that it's time to expose Bushco will those "regular" Americans notice anything at all.

It's like the election of 2000. The media played it as business as usual. Nothing to see here. If they had reported it as what it was -- a constitutional crisis and bloodless coup -- that's how Americans would see it. I fear our national "decency" doesn't go as far as actually paying attention.

[MuseRider]

5. Beat me to it.

That is exactly correct. If all the public hears or has time to hear are the spins and lies that are the norm in the media then that is all they will ever know. We are still fighting this with both hands tied behind our backs. It is pretty astonishing that we have gotten this far. We must push hard because this may be the last chance we have. They will never let anything ever again get this out of hand.