My headline hasn't happened yet, but
if I'm understanding this right, today the Senate of the United States is on a path to issue a retroactive pardon to Bush. Presumably being a Unitary President and all, you'd expect his courts to rule that such a pardon covers everyone Bush says it does. That'll sure help draw everyone closer and promote justice, won't it?
To quote from the Kos/Patriot Daily News link above
(5) This new law will retroactively validate Bush's illegal NSA spying from 2002 until now, thereby precluding impeaching Bush for violating the law. ...In other words, Bush's warrantless spying on Americans is now deemed under the law as illegal acts, but after this new legislation is enacted, those same illegal acts will now be authorized.
Just to be clear,
the Senate is granting to itself an extra-Constitutional power. They have no right to pardon. It and nothing like it exists. They'd join Bush in seizing unto themselves powers not granted them. We've got a President who acts outside the law, and then a Congress that acts outside the law in order to protect him from the consequences of his illegal behavior. Now. Who's cool with that?
Sen Clinton, you cool with that? Reid, Obama? Howard Dean? We know Conyers, Lee, Jackson-Lee will have something to say. Who else? Anybody in DC public life got anything to say? How about John McCain? Editorialists? News Editors? Talking Heads? Flag-wearing Patriots? Are you all cool with this? Then tell us that, so we know exactly where you stand with us.
Gentle reader, if you are not cool with this, it's time to get not-so-gentle on the heads of our representatives [sic] in government, in the press, on the call-in shows, the blogs, the office, in fact, everywhere people gather. We need to immediately bring the spotlight directly on this group of men determined to seize absolute power.
It is a double-tradgedy for us because we face losing not only our freedoms, but then business will be conducted in such a way as to effectively enslave us. If their delusion-based incompetence doesn't get us all killed off before then.
The Romans had a Republic, but they couldn't keep it. Too many of the best-connected turned into greedy, fearful, selfish people. The result was Augustus Caesar. Having seized power he turned down being honored with a crown or title. "No, I am but the humble saviour of our Republic." But the Senate harried him to accept the respectful, affectionate, even big-brotherly, description "first citizen." After that they still met as a Senate, and if it didn't really bother him, Caesar let them go on with it. If it really didn't bother him. He did not need to be called "king," but he was king of a mock-Republic.
Now we have a mock Senate, despising the people, abandoning the rule of law, betraying their oath, and refusing their duty. Even the "good guys" are not focused on doing right by these things just listed. The Dem leaders see themselves as sophisticates, playing the angles according to "lessons learned" in 1980, 1984, 1988, 2000. They appear oblivious that the game is no longer just "electoral politics" anymore. It's about those in high position ruthlessly striving for absolute power.
Corruption is not an abstract, mystical force that descends to plague a people. Corruption is the activity of Corrupt Individuals. And corrupt individuals--as each day's news confirms again--permeate our power-holding class. They must leave.
We need to go all out, and hammer away until every public figure we see is determined to loudly and vigorously defend our Constitution and traditions. Impeachment would be nice if it happens, and that in time, but why wait? America needs mass resignations throughout the three federal branches as soon as possible.