Bring it on!
Posted by CG at December 15, 2008 04:44 AMI agree with you on this one, but do not understand why we need to use Buchanan for an excuse.
Greenwald has pointed out EXACT reasons to pursue impeachable crimes anyway.
So if the Repubs move this way, I agree with Deacon Blues, investigate and prosecute wrongdoing of team Bush people, and also prosecute any Dems we find breaking the law. Get back to the Rule of Law.
I don't know how we work with folks whose only principle is power. If the vast right wing conspiracy is going to grab the Blag corruption mess and try to use it like they did with White Water, then I think the gloves have to come off and we demand the special prosecutor to determine what indictments are called for among the Bush criminals. Certainly Alberto, Rummy, Bush, and Cheney have some issues they can't wish away, maybe Colin Powell, Ashcroft and others as well.
I don't like the idea that we would now be suggesting that each change of party at the top would lead to criminalization of the earlier admin, but I don't know what else to do if the RWC is stupid enough to try to start up with Obama over Blago and not understand that their new-found enthusiasm for special prosecutors will naturally lead to the reasonable investigation of the profound crimes of the past eight years.
Posted by mike at December 15, 2008 07:54 AMinvestigate the bush team, period. not out of partisanship, and not out of revenge, but out of a simple need to reveal the truth, and punish those who committed crimes. be fair, be honest, and be objective. prove that we are a nation of laws, not a nation of elites.
Posted by Turkana at December 15, 2008 08:31 AMMike, you might want to direct your 1st question to that useless git harry Reid.
To counter arguments against Obama influence on his successor, just ask how much benefit would he be getting, really, from whoever Blag picked? I mean, I don't think his replacement is the highest thing on his to do list.
Sure, he would have interests in it, but you have to figure it's not worth spending political capital on at this point in the day. Only pathetic republican scum worry about every detail as if they're the most important detail of all. And yes, that's why they have had the "success" they've had, but they haven't yet realized the cost they are going to pay for it yet, but madoff is a hint of the disaster the republican scum are going to suffer of their own volition by their own philosophy.
Posted by Duckman GR at December 15, 2008 10:04 PM