Reply #5: That's what they are hoping will happen [View All]

[chookie]

Your analysis is quite plausible. Listening to state-controlled CNN today, the spin was "OKAY! So now this scndal is over with!" That is the line that Mr Rove has given them all to read, that this is all over with.

The other line Mr Rove them reading is "Democrats who want President Bush's job have accused him..." Yeah yeah, so it's all just vicious partisanship. Sure, yeah yeah.

However, I am not altogether convinced that the analysis that you and some other DUers have put forth, that Biden and others are protecting Bush, is correct. My theory, which is to say it is the theory that belongs to me -- is that when they say "Whoever is responsible for this bogus information should be fired!!" is setting a rhetorical trap for smirky. It's like playing a big fish -- you let him take the line, you reel him in, you play with him, until you've caught him. Everyone and their grandmother knows that smirky, and Condi, and Rummy, and Unka Dick are culpable in this. The idea that all of these people were "fooled" by that nasty man George Tenet is bullshit. He didn't fool you about this stuff; he didn't fool me about this stuff; he didn't fool the people in intelligence who have been speaking out about this issue all along; he didn't fool Bob Graham, or Howard Dean, or Scott Ritter, or Paul Krugman, etc. But we are supposed to believe he fooled poor innocent smirky and his cabinet -- the most powerful people in the world? Yeah yeah, sure. They're watching the smirkistas squirm now. You can't rush these things....

I don't think that the people who have fingered Bush on this are going to be stopped by Tenet's gesture of falling on his sword for His Chimperial Highness. They're not going to take the meat that they have been handed to let the bad guys go and do their thing. They're going to keep the pressure on.

I think when Tony Blair is forced out of office later this year for the same deception as smirky -- that should recapture the attention of Americans.

The guy who hunts smirky down, and comes up with the killer line "Have you, at long last, no decency, sir?" -- He, or she -- is going to be the hero in this -- not the people who are protecting this president.

Bob Graham, and Howard Dean -- and others, including, I believe, Biden -- aren't going to sit down and shut up. There's blood in the water now.

So maybe we will not be able to defeat the Bush Crime Family in the fabulously financed crooked elections of 2004 -- but if he is re-elected, mark my words -- he will be impeached. It may take that long to catch up to the bastard, but it will.