Dems Tipping Their Impeachment Hand
I've said for years now that if the Democrats ever managed to win back the House of Representatives before the end of George Bush's term in office, their first order of business would be the drafting of articles of impeachment against the President, probably using the old "Bush lied about WMDs to invade Iraq" canard, as their long-anticipated (by them) revenge for the House GOP's impeachment of Bill Clinton.
Even as it becomes more and more apparent that no "high level White House indictments" over "Plamegate" are going to be forthcoming, it looks like the Donks couldn't wait until they got the House back to let that particular cat out of its bag:
Despite the complete and total debunking of the "BUSH LIED!!!" lie by the report issued in the summer of 2004 by the Senate Intelligence Committee, so irrationally positive are they that they've got Dubya by the shorthairs that they've even got their version of Ken Starr picked out - Patrick Fitzgerald himself:
And when those reports turn into more dry wells, then what? Why, Nadler and Hichey and the rest of those crazy bastards will press ahead with the impeachment angle anyway. Doubtless Ron Immanuel, the Clintonoid Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee capo, will make impeachment the top issue for House Democrat candidates in 2006.
Here's how:
In other words, broaden the scope of "Plamegate" to just about anywhere Dems want to go fishing for Bushophobic PR sludge. As though "efforts to discredit critics of the Iraq war" were somehow illegal in and of themselves. Or that such efforts would require "misleading," rather than a simple, honest, straightforward statement of the facts.
Getting Bush is part of their motivation. Beyond that, though, is the same old Democrat tactic of trying to criminalize policy differences with a Republican administration. And since the Democrats don't control Congress, and therefore can't pass, even retroactively, an updated equivalent of the Boland Amendment, they seek to accomplish the same thing - like the rest of their neoBolshevik agenda - through judicial activism. And to top that off, use that as a platform for getting their legislative power back.
It would be a classic example of getting the cart before the horse, even if the horse had any legs. Democrats will certainly not get the House OR Senate back on another BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) platform, any more than they will with the agenda they dare not publicly embrace or the phony "third way" gambits they can't convince enough voters they really believe in.
However, the Bush Administration may lend them a hand by endorsing Congressman Nadler's request of DAG McCallum. After all, they sicced SP Fitzgerald on themselves, and that was long before Hurricane Katrina broke the spine of this White House.
If he thinks the "New Tone" requires it, the Dems won't have to impeach Bush, because he'll resign and turn himself into authorities despite not having done anything wrong.
If his enemies do want a fight, though, let them oppose Harriet Miers' SCOTUS nomination. Then it'll be Mortal Kombat.
Even as it becomes more and more apparent that no "high level White House indictments" over "Plamegate" are going to be forthcoming, it looks like the Donks couldn't wait until they got the House back to let that particular cat out of its bag:
Even before leaks from [special prosecutor Patrick] Fitzgerald's investigation indicated he planned indictments, Representative Maurice Hinchey let slip the Democrats' plan to impeach Bush for alleged Iraq war lies.
In quotes picked up by the Ithaca Journal, Hinchey said in August: "My greatest hope is that all of these things will be revealed, they will be revealed in a very direct and legal context, and that in 2006 a Democratic majority will be elected to the House of Representatives, and in February of [2007] impeachment proceedings will begin."
Despite the complete and total debunking of the "BUSH LIED!!!" lie by the report issued in the summer of 2004 by the Senate Intelligence Committee, so irrationally positive are they that they've got Dubya by the shorthairs that they've even got their version of Ken Starr picked out - Patrick Fitzgerald himself:
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are so pleased with reports that Leakgate prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is about to indict senior White House officials that they want him to lead an impeachment investigation into whether President Bush lied to Congress about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
"The CIA leak issue is only the tip of the iceberg,” House Judiciary Democrat Jerrold Nadler complains in a message posted to his web site. [emphasis added]
And when those reports turn into more dry wells, then what? Why, Nadler and Hichey and the rest of those crazy bastards will press ahead with the impeachment angle anyway. Doubtless Ron Immanuel, the Clintonoid Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee capo, will make impeachment the top issue for House Democrat candidates in 2006.
Here's how:
The Manhattan Democrat is asking Acting Deputy Attorney General Robert McCallum to direct Fitzgerald to probe efforts by the White House to discredit critics of the Iraq war like former Ambassador Joe Wilson.
Nadler wants Fitzgerald to determine whether attacks on Wilson were part of a "broader conspiracy knowingly to mislead Congress into authorizing a war."
In other words, broaden the scope of "Plamegate" to just about anywhere Dems want to go fishing for Bushophobic PR sludge. As though "efforts to discredit critics of the Iraq war" were somehow illegal in and of themselves. Or that such efforts would require "misleading," rather than a simple, honest, straightforward statement of the facts.
Getting Bush is part of their motivation. Beyond that, though, is the same old Democrat tactic of trying to criminalize policy differences with a Republican administration. And since the Democrats don't control Congress, and therefore can't pass, even retroactively, an updated equivalent of the Boland Amendment, they seek to accomplish the same thing - like the rest of their neoBolshevik agenda - through judicial activism. And to top that off, use that as a platform for getting their legislative power back.
It would be a classic example of getting the cart before the horse, even if the horse had any legs. Democrats will certainly not get the House OR Senate back on another BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) platform, any more than they will with the agenda they dare not publicly embrace or the phony "third way" gambits they can't convince enough voters they really believe in.
However, the Bush Administration may lend them a hand by endorsing Congressman Nadler's request of DAG McCallum. After all, they sicced SP Fitzgerald on themselves, and that was long before Hurricane Katrina broke the spine of this White House.
If he thinks the "New Tone" requires it, the Dems won't have to impeach Bush, because he'll resign and turn himself into authorities despite not having done anything wrong.
If his enemies do want a fight, though, let them oppose Harriet Miers' SCOTUS nomination. Then it'll be Mortal Kombat.
posted by JASmius at 8:55 AM
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