I diaried this back in October 2007.
Seems sort of relevant today.
Dem's all lined up for a Spitzer impeachment but, You won't de-fund Bush. You won't impeach Bush. You won't investigate Bush. You won't listen to us.
So what is it? Did the warrentless wiretaps turn up something on the heavy hitters in your party?
So Nancy....Steny...Is it blackmail or what?
This is the only rational answer for the failings of our Democratically controlled House and Senate.
And there's this:
Politically directed dragnet snares New York Governor Spitzer
By Bill Van Auken
There is no question but that Governor Spitzer engaged in personally reckless behavior. But as a political matter, that is far less important than the issues raised by the role played by the Bush administration in organizing the political destruction of a man who happens to be the elected chief executive of the state of New York.
Passing the "Smell Test"
It supposedly began as an investigation triggered by a bank report filed to comply with stiffer federal requirements imposed post-9/11 as part of the "war on terror." But doesn’t it seem likely that someone at the bank would have recognized the name Eliot Spitzer and concluded that it was highly improbable that the multi-millionaire Jewish governor of New York was part of an Al Qaeda sleeper cell?
I smell Turd Blossoms!
Washington itself, there are also clearly identifiable motives for pursuing this case. Under the Bush administration, the US Department of Justice has, as New York attorney Scott Heron pointed out on the Harpers Magazine web site, prosecuted 5.2 Democrats for every Republican, and many of these Republicans were pursued only because they were caught up in cases against Democrats. Moreover, these prosecutions have in many instances been timed to coincide with the electoral cycle. Such was the case with the corruption prosecution of Alabama’s Democratic governor, Don Siegelman, which Republican insiders have indicated was instigated by Bush’s former chief advisor, Karl Rove.
The investigations went no-where.
All of the Key players are off the map.
Remember Governor Siegelman?
Don Siegelman, stands convicted of bribery and conspiracy charges and faces a sentence of up to 30 years in prison
The controversy over the firing of nine US Attorneys that gripped Washington last year stemmed in large part from similar cases in which Rove and others sought to promote politically motivated prosecutions of Democrats. Considering the peculiar course taken by the Spitzer case, there is ample reason to suspect that it represents just such a political hit job by the Bush administration.
And it's not like the Bushies have used suspect intelligence for political gain before...Right?
Under the pretext of waging a "global war on terror," the Bush administration has demanded unrestricted access to this information, and the Democratic Party has acquiesced again and again. The Spitzer case shows to what effect such information can be used.
If a politically powerful and immensely wealthy individual like Spitzer cannot protect himself from this increasingly Orwellian state spying apparatus, what about the average citizen?