Little support for criminal investigations in Establishment Washington because too many people were complicit in these crimes, including Democrats and the korporate media.
Posted by Gay Veteran at February 12, 2009 10:28 AMPut me down for investigations.
I will contribute a bail of "Mussolini Village Square" piano wire.
How about: is it complete dereliction of duty to totally ignore a serious CIA warning about a pending attack on the United States?
Posted by T2 at February 12, 2009 12:56 PMI have no problem with Eric Holder at DOJ, but the beltway media sure will. If Obama's Attorney General seriously goes after any member of the Bush Crime Syndicate, then David Broder--prodded by "respectable" wingnut pundits--will climb out of his day bed just long enough to have a stroke.
It's not fair! What about the Clinton pardons? Shouldn't we take another look at those? As long as we're "criminalizing" policy disputes.
Posted by cygnus at February 12, 2009 01:29 PMHA ! the GOPer Obama picked for the cabinet..Gregg (a pick roundly criticized on these pages) has bailed....griping about the stimulus package. So much for bipartisanism. I hope Obama goes out and gets a full blown Liberal to ram down the GOP's throat on this post.
Posted by T2 at February 12, 2009 01:34 PMas more facts come out, it looks more like Obama gave him the boot. Within minutes, Gregg has announced his retirement from politics..
Posted by T2 at February 12, 2009 02:30 PMGregg no doubt wants to spend more time with the ol' family. It was rather cheesy to call a big press conference and announce his withdrawal just before another Obama stimulus raising event. The timing, at least, seemed to catch the Obama team by surprise. Class act! Typically Republican.
I'm glad Rep. Paul Hodes (D), who will run and likely win the seat in 2010, was not all kumbayah on the issue.
I am surprised and disappointed at this sudden withdrawal," Hodes said. "Senator Gregg would take us back to the years of George W. Bush rather than moving forward with the change agenda that the American people clearly want."
You GO Paul!
Posted by DeminNewJ at February 12, 2009 02:48 PMBill Ayers for commerce! Bill Ayers for commerce!
Take that, you bastards!
Posted by TIKI AL at February 12, 2009 04:06 PMGregg has announced his retirement from politics..
No doubt the TXTms to the male Pages were discovered...maybe he was blowing guys in airport bathrooms...maybe he was grabbing Lindsey Graham's crotch...no, Graham would never complain about a guy grabbing his crotch...hmmm? Who knows? But what poetic justice. I hoist one to a republi-KKKon completely fucked over by circumstances and his own stupidity. You are gone, Gregg. Too bad it wasn't a debilitating and painful cancer. 1 down, and so few more to go.
Posted by phidipides at February 12, 2009 04:38 PMAnd....
Okay, Big "O". The public wants investigations of the Mad King, slacker son of George the Lame and Bar the Lush. You say it's up to us to bring change. Are you in with us on this one?
Posted by phidipides at February 12, 2009 04:55 PMI hoist one to a republi-KKKon completely fucked over by circumstances and his own stupidity. You are gone, Gregg.
He'll be doing OK for himself... he's a multi-millionaire... he even won the Powerball Lottery for 853k back in 2005... good fucking riddance!
Posted by Seven of Six at February 12, 2009 07:10 PMPresident Obama is acting like a police chief of a major metropolis who, upon being sworn into office as that towns top law enforcer, declares that all the crimes committed before he was sworn in do not matter since he was not on duty when the alleged crimes took place...even though there is plenty of evidence that actual crimes were committed and should be prosecuted...but the new police chief swears on a stack of bibles that a new day has dawned, that he will clean up the mess handed to him by his predecessor and will make certain that his administration will not commit the crimes committed by his predecessor, nor turn a blind eye to crimes being committed by cronies like his predecessor did.
Making, therefor, the new police chief an accessory after the fact.
I hope President Obama realizes that he will only retain his good name and hoped-for legacy if he lets the U.S. Department of Justice do its job (upholding the law and prosecuting the breaking of laws), ordering full-scale investigations of every facet of the previous Bush/Cheney administration, turning over every stone until no stone is left unturned, all questions are answered, and all potential criminals from the Bush/Cheney years (both in the White House and among all the private no-bid contractors) has had their day and say in court. If proven innocent, they can go free. If proven guilty of breaking whatever law they broke, then they should bear the consequences, like any other U.S. citizen would.
No one is above the law, President Obama keeps saying.
Prove it.
Posted by The Oracle at February 12, 2009 10:06 PM...they're willing to have a fascist state here in the USA.
I think this understates the situation. I think they actively seek a fascist state, as long as it's based in christianist thought, because they think it'll never be turned on them (or people they care about).
Posted by bartcopfan at February 13, 2009 09:16 AM