Deep Gloat by Paul Slansky

[Demeter]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-slansky-/deep-gloat_b_44020.html


The truly great, giddiness-inducing thing about the Justice Department scandal (still awaiting its moronically obligatory "gate"-suffixed title) is how it owes its existence to the gratuitous nastiness of these hate-driven punks in the White House.

Gonzales and Co. could have just said, "We're firing these people because we can," and that would have been that.

Sure, Josh Marshall might still have been all over it, but he would have been just a dismissible left-wing blogger. And sure, John Conyers and Chuck Schumer might still have fulminated about it on C-SPAN, but most House and Senate Democrats are such wusses that nothing would have come of that, either. The White House would have been home free, with the story having vanished from the front pages weeks ago.

But NOOOOOOO! These spiteful sadists, who so revel in causing pain that they can't let a single opportunity pass untaken, had to impugn the fitness of the fired, thus forcing them to defend themselves by attacking their attackers and elevating their dismissals to, as George H.W. Bush was fond of putting it, a media "feeding frenzy." Their "performance" wasn't up to snuff! If there's any finger you would think these overweening incompetents wouldn't dare to point, it's that one, though nothing clouds judgment more thoroughly than a total lack of shame. (And speaking of shamelessness, one would think the hypocrisy of these serial election stealers complaining about insufficiently vigorous prosecution of voter fraud would be eagerly pointed out by hundreds of reporters and pundits. But NOOOOOOO!)

The tone is, of course, set at the top - or, to put it less loftily, the fish rots from the head. Just as Richard M. Nixon's innate deviousness defined and destroyed his presidency, so is George W. Bush's innate cruelty - and the complementary vindictiveness of Cheney, Gonzales and Rove - defining and destroying his. That haunted, desperate look on Bush's face Tuesday evening as he truculently announced his plans to hunker down and fight any subpoenas was the spitting image of his fellow Constitution-trasher Nixon's sweaty mug during the last months of his presidency. It has long been apparent that Bush learned no lessons from Viet Nam, so it's hardly surprising to see that he also learned nothing from Watergate.


MORE SLANGING GOODNESS--CANOT RECOMMEND THIS TOO HIGHLY!

[Joanne98]

1. And the USA in Little Rock would have threatened Hillary....

with more "Whitewater" type scandals.....

[damntexdem]

2. What do you mean that PROSECUTORGATE still doesn't have its 'gate' name?

;-)

[The Blue Flower]

3. They'll screw this up like everything else

What's so satisfying to me as I'm watching all of this unfold is that I fully expect them to handle this with the same degree of utter, maniac incompetence as they have everything else. They have declared war on Congress, the Judiciary, the Constitution, and the American people. The body politic will utterly reject this infection that it contracted on 12/12/00 because they will screw this fight up so royally.