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ignominy of Bush and his cronies getting away with everything they did basically scott free?
I don't think so.
In the past, the corruption and self serving behavior of previous administrations didn't leak out until after the transfer of power. We, as a people, seemed to have accepted this and were vindicated when history sated our revenge by forever tainting those who deserved to be tainted.
The present democratic legislative leaders, always frightened by the potential consequence of any action that might be deemed controversial, have decided that holding anyone in the Bush Administration accountable for their actions would do more harm than good. The people, they claim, want the country to move on.
But this is, at best, a specious argument. The leadership seems to have consider the fact that more people follow the goings on of Britney and Paris (Why Else would McCain's handlers pick those two to do damage to Obama) than what is going on in Washington and that people were turned off by the Clinton Impeachment in making their decision to not seek retribution from those currently holed up at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. In other words, they have little faith in the American public to rally behind what is right. Perhaps if they would have, for once, considered the Constitution and the harm done to our country first, the proceedings would be wrapping up about now.
I see this as an inability on the part of the, dare I say it, elitist "liberals" running the show in Congress to recognize the ability of the American people to discern the difference between a witch hunt conducted by power crazed middle aged white men and a fair procedural trial that would spell out once and for all the nefarious, unethical and illegal act perpetrated on the American Constitution by the Bush White House.
You know that they, those amoral occupants of the Executive Branch of the government, counted on this response from the likes of Nancy Pelosi. They called it. They knew it and so they were never concerned about any blow back by the new leadership in Congress. They continue, to this day, to stonewall and mock Congress knowing full well no consequence will be realized. And nobody calls them on it. Well, except Jon Stewert and Stephen Colbert.
If we make it past these next few decades, I am fairly confident that history will not look kindly on House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reed. In fact, scholars in the future may hold them as culpable to the greatest disaster to befall our country as those who actually did the deed.
That is, as I stated above, if we do make it out of this dark dark place where we now find our selfs.
America, we hardly knew ye...
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