This seems to be a good time to discuss the current administration’s (and our nation’s) period of "Peak failure" will happen. I know that The "CYA moment" pre 9/11, Tora Bora, the initial Iraqi rioting, the looting of the weapons caches and the Abu Garaib fiasco (along with many other instances) have brought in to question just how much failure sustainability we can manage as a nation.
My question is just where will (with apologies to NOLA) the high water mark of these failures be?
Maybe the "enduring bases" or the "gated communities" (walls - ala Israel/Palestine) along with enough of a body count in Iraq will be the crest? If that won’t do it maybe the hand over of the petroleum resources of Iraq to the (double secret) Cheney energy task force will be the peak.
Will the recent spectacle of the land’s highest law enforcement officer transparently lying to the legislature be enough? Perhaps the knowledge that not only the DOJ but ALL regulatory agencies have been served in the same way... will that do the trick?
Perhaps today's spectacle of Karl Rove investigating HIMSELF via the OSC in their new "faith based" guise will finally be enough!
Even a cursory examination of Mr. Bloch turns up a few holes in his resume if he is to be seen as a fair and unprejudiced investigator – The Ave Maria school of law!?
I confess I don’t know what it will take. Watergate (Nixon) Iran/Contra (Regan-Bush)and now these wall to wall failures (Bush again)! Yet only one impeachment in my lifetime, it seems surreal.
At the turn of the century I would have never believed that such things would, or indeed, could happen!