Yesterday, President Jo Jo The Idiot Boy told the Congress and Senate to piss up a rope regarding sworn testimony from Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzales, The mouthpiece who delivered the message was Fred F. Fielding. Fred is the 32nd White House Counsel, who replaced Harriet Miers.
Fred has a great background in politics, aside from being the 19th White House Counsel under The Almost Lifelike Ronald Regan, from 1981 to 1986. The most fascinating part of his resume was as his gig as Associate Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1972. Fred’s boss was John Dean. Yes, that John Dean. The one who blew Nixon out of the water with revelations of all the insanity that was going on in the White House.
Now, am I saying that the current White House, under President Jo Jo The Idiot Boy, Shotgun Dick and Kousin Karl is the same as the Nixon Monstrosity? Not at all.
The current incumbents learned from Watergate. If there is anything written down, it has already been shredded. If there are taping systems in Shotgun Dick’s office, they’ve already made the tapes invisible via the Patriot Act and National Security. If someone broke into the Democratic HQ back in the day, you would be assured the perps did not have any pieces of paper with Karl Rove’s phone number on it. Remember, getting caught is the ultimate crime.
The fudges the Republican Party have pulled, like winning Florida from Gore by controlling the whole counting and appeals process, are small beer compared to Nixon and the Committee to Re Elect the President.
The new boys are much tougher than Nixon’s punks. There is no Daniel Ellsberg Pentagon Papers and break-ins at a psychiatrists office. The CIA has improved their tradecraft and taught the FBI the rudimentary tools too, so that side is covered off.
As for firing eight Federal Attorneys, well, it stinks, but is legal. Karl’s fingerprints are all over that one, but there have been no laws broken, so it is a non-starter. However, Shotgun Dick’s Chief of Staff being a lying scumbag and bullshitting the FBI under oath, was actionable and Irving will be spending time in the Crowbar Hotel.
As for Jo Jo The Idiot Boy, his comment is, "We will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants. … I have proposed a reasonable way to avoid an impasse." It sounds like it was cribbed from the Richard Nixon quote book that, "Today, in one of the most difficult decisions of my presidency, I accepted the resignations of two of my closest associates in the White House — Bob Haldeman, John Ehrlichman — two of the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know."
Even yesterday, the Nixonian term "Executive Privilege" has been dusted off by Jo Jo’s handlers. A reminder here, the only executive privilege the President gets is Marine One, Air Force One, the keys to Camp David and a fleet of armored limousines. America isn’t a monarchy, if I remember my civics class correctly.
Until somebody decides to actually open their mouth and lay out the real data on how much Karl and Shotgun Dick have run roughshod over the Legislative, Judicial and Executive branches of government in the name of National Security, we’ll never know.
Actually, we can find out. To quote David Hobbs, the media needs a "Large Set of Attachments"
It is time for a return to legitimate reporting, which means digging into the relationship between Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rove, Dubya and the American Enterprise Institute, with the oil, security and arms industries. Add Wolfowitz, Feith and the Carlyle Group into the mix to find out more.
There is an expression in Latin that sums it up: Qui Bono? Who Profits? The money can’t disappear, no matter how hard they try. It will only take a couple of dedicated reporters and editors, with some media resources, to start the hard, unglamorous slog through the paper trail. We need a return to the Cronkite/Woodward/Bernstein/Bradley level of digging for the story that is in there.
Qui Bono? Answer that and President Jo Jo the Idiot Boy and his cronies don’t get to wipe their feet on the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution.
RoadDave 