The US president's men in dire straits

[rodeodance]

oh, poor little Bushco!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070423/wl_afp/uspoliticsbush_070422230605;_ylt=AskhRkdQVs_iiguQwglY4o_MWM0F

The US president's men in dire straits

by Laurent Lozano Sun Apr 22, 11:09 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The president's men have fallen on hard times.


With US President George W. Bush already facing a tough second term with a dismal approval rating hovering around 30 percent, his inner circle has been hit hard by scandals and a chorus of calls for resignations.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has faced a barrage of criticism and calls for him to step down over his handling of the firing of top prosecutors.

Bush's political guru Karl Rove, a White House aide once dubbed "Bush's Brain," has consistently been the target of animosity from the administration's harshest critics who see his hand in many scandals.

Even leaving the administration doesn't leave one safe.

[rodeodance]

1. Should we believe these three Bush loyalists if they tell us that rain falls down instead of up, or

..........A Washington Post columnist questioned if Rove, Wolfowitz and Gonzales can be trusted.

"Today's topic is credibility -- specifically, recent claims by certain high-ranking present, former and perhaps soon-to-be-former Bush administration officials," columnist Eugene Robinson wrote this week.

"The aim is to answer a simple question: Should we believe these three Bush loyalists if they tell us that rain falls down instead of up, or should we look out the window to make sure?" it said.

"Rove, Wolfowitz and Gonzales are making the last-ditch argument of a cheating husband caught in flagrante: Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"

To Eric Davis, the Bush insiders are paying a price for their loyalty to the president.

[DFW]

2. Not quite

The Bush insiders are not paying a price for their loyalty to anyone, least of all a straw figurehead of their own making.

If they pay a price at all (not yet a sure thing), it will be for conspiring
to pervert the laws and Constitution of the United States.

That is a price they deserve to pay, and one that cannot be calculated
in fines paid or years served. What they have done to our country is
so evil, no penalty on or off the books could begin to serve as atonement.

[liberal N proud]

3. If they pay a price, it will not be for their loyalty to bu$h

But rather their greed. These monsters are the collective mind behind the bu$h regime. The reason they will not resign is because they have the power and they are not about to give it up.
I still doubt they have any intentions of giving up power in 2009. There is a lot of damage they could do to this republic by then including establishing their long desired monarchy type government.

[Peace Patriot]

4. First we get our money back. All war profits are forfeit. Then we sentence them to

a lifetime of cleaning bedpans in Veterans hospitals.

That's my favorite punishment for Bushites.

And we might also want to pull the corporate charters of a number of bad actor corporations, and seize their assets for the common good. But we had better get on this quick. Halliburton has already moved its headquarters to Dubai. Can you think why?

Oh, and to be able to accomplish this "truth and reconciliation" program, we have first to restore our right to vote, by removing, or somehow circumventing, the electronic voting systems run on "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, that were fast-tracked all over the country during the 2002 to 2004 period. We have shown that we can outvote the machines in some cases (in '06) but as long as the bad guys have a "thumb on the scales" for Bushites, warmongers and corporatists, we're going to have a Congress that verbally castigates the Bush Junta on the one hand, and forks over another $120 billion in "emergency" funds for killing Iraqis and stealing their oil, on the other. We are very much in the clutches of war profiteers. That is what the "trade secret" vote counting is for--to force us to continue a war that 75% of the American people oppose, and that a majority (56%!) opposed FROM THE BEGINNING (Feb. '03).

If you're going to perpetrate an unjust, illegal war, in a democracy--especially one with the Vietnam War in living memory--you have to fix the elections. That's what they did. And we will not have justice for the war profiteers in this country until we un-fix the election system, however we can. (I think our best bet in pressure on local/state officials to provide a ballot for every vote, and to handcount every ballot as a check against the machine totals. They can keep their corrupt, shiny, new, excessively expensive machines, for now anyway. Just count the ballots!) (Congress ain't gonna do this. Can you think why?)