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When you think about it, this is the most amazing set of pictures imaginable. Anyone who matters at the Justice Department has now resigned. Six or so months ago, the U.S. Attorney Plan became public, and now everyone involved is gone with the wind. George W. Bush is standing in front of a microphone red faced, claiming that Alberto Gonzales’ name was dragged through the mud for political reasons – indignant. What really happened was simple. Karl Rove and friends had a scheme. Intimidate Minority voters in key areas and control the vote by bringing voter fraud cases. It didn’t work, and now the lot of them are gone from government – three from the White House and the top ten from the Justice Department.
No one’s been charged with anything. All they had to do was testify. And down they came. Each one is some mother’s child – a person of Great Expectations who had risen to places of high authority. Now they’re disgraced because of their part in a scheme, the full dimension of which remains murky. Don’t be fooled by the fact that they’re all college graduates [except for Rove]. Don’t be surprised that they’re all Law School graduates [except for Rove]. They really aren’t our best and brightest. They aren’t even the Republicans’ best and brightest. But [except for Rove and Schlozman] they’re probably not rats or bottom feeders. They’re just people who didn’t know who they worked for. A lot of their best and brightest are also gone – James Comey, and the eight plus who were fired as part of the scheme.
In its scope, this is one of our government’s greatest scandals ever. We’re just still too close to realize its full depth.
Someone graduates at the bottom of the class, too. A diploma means nothing when the person it’s given to doesn’t THINK about what it is they are doing and whether or not it’s the right thing to do. When you lack the ability to choose betwen right and wrong no degree will help you, because you are still just another lackey criminal.
just another lackey criminal about sums it up. I think it’s kind of sad. With the exception of Rove, I doubt any of them set out to be what they turned out to be. Bush and Rove created a climate that allowed them to feel powerful, like what they were doing was sort of holy. This kind of mass moral failing always starts at the top. Of course they are each responsible for what they did – but the “source” remains protected…
I agree that it’s sad. It’s really sad. So were the genocides that have happened around the globe where there was this ideology of “us” vs “them.” Honestly, that is the type of ideology that I have seen Bush & Co, pushing from the start and it’s smart and not-so smart people that are buying into it. So, while it’s sad that they got caught up I still say “Shame” because they fell for an old, sad story- Us vs. Them. Now, if we could just figure out how to turn Bush & Cheney into them and let US have our country back. See how easy that trap is? haha!