Looks awesome on a bumper sticker, less so as a best practice.
Still not understanding why the administration continues doing this. Do they think they'll get any credit from the Republicans for it? Or is this just the latest gambit to stay BFFs with the boys at Langley?
They had questions from ordinary people for the President Elect submitted on their website and voted up or down. The top question at the end of the voting had come from Bob Fertik of Democrats.com and it was this: “Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor---ideally Patrick Fitzgerald---to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?”Not only was the answer no, but it had to be inferred because President Change U. Wish refused to answer the question. I’ve always assumed I could guess why: a president wouldn’t want previous presidents subject to the rule of law, because then he would be too. Just this week I was suggesting that allowing the Justice Department to enforce laws against Cheney could save Obama’s electoral prospects at the risk of seeing Obama, too, land in prison some day.
If we do indeed wake up one day and find ourselves ruled by an authoritarian government, it won't be because of some military coup d'etat, it'll be because the oily ethics of bipartisan consensus greased the skids for the fascists to take power via the ballot box. I suspect we'll eventually come to regret the fact that (a) our leaders chose to behave in this lawless manner, and that (b) everyone in positions of legal authority let them get the hell away with it.
---Vitelius
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