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Absolutely Bob, when a government fails to act in the best interests of 98% of its constituents, how can it claim legitimacy? As far as I can tell our government is now serving the interests of the American elite (2%) and the multinational corporations...one and the same thing. To make matters worse the opinion of ex-cia analyst Ray Mcgovern is that Rove stepped down because he doesnt want to be around to explain why we invaded Iran. Tony Snow is reportedly leaving for the same reason. Seems that Cheney is going to get his way once again.
http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=11481
River,
The other explanation is that Rove was thrown off the sleigh to the following pack of wolves. They may think he's about to get indicted for the CIA leak.
I don't know what we're going to do. Its too late for an impeachment, if you recall, Watergate took more than a year and those crazies are talking about tactical nukes in Iran now. In my more paranoid moments I think the want to declare martial law and stop the election, because they'll be called to justice for war crimes, and nukeing Iran would give them the justification.
I just hope we didn't permanently loose the Republic when Gore failed to contest the Florida vote.
Bob Ebersole
"Its too late for an impeachment..."
This sentiment gets such a pass. We let him walk away, and all the transgressions he has committed become precident.
They say the next congress will get nothing done in the busy election season. Hogwash. Turn up the dial on investigations regarding anything he has done innaapropriatly and for gawd's sake, please get into writing the exact powers and authorities of the Vice President's office.
I don't care if the investigations and possible trials last well into Shrub's retirement. Pull him back from Paraguay or wherever the hell he slinks off to and ride his ass as long as it takes to clear his mess up.
It's not too late for impeachment. Impeachment takes precedence over all other business in Congress. And shutting down all other business in Congress would be better than continuing Business As Usual - a nice side benefit. The real reason we won't get impeachment is that Democrats fundamentally agree with Republicans in the defacto class warfare/coup that is going on.
I just purchased some solar PV today and had the pleasure of myself and the vendor being run through a terrorist database as part of the process. It's my @#$% money - why does the bank have to play informant? Because both Democrats and Republicans in the last days of this empire agree on the clampdown; it's required for the transition to serious tyranny where no transactions will be allowed except between approved entities.
We won't get impeachment because Democrats would have to appear like they were serious about it when they are serious about not doing it because they want the powers. Time is not the problem.
cfm in Gray, ME
You can impeach officeholders after they leave office. The purpose is to allow criminal prosecution for actions taken under the color of authority.
Exactly right, good for you. This is yet one more thing about our constitution that has been conveniently left untaught and ignored, so most Americans don't know about it.
Rove's potential indictment hinges on some small game played in Alabama over a House seat if I recall correctly. I do so hope that is what is happening, and now if the Democrats would only find the nerve to do what is needed with the rest of them.
If the current crop of Congresscritters were in charge in 1944 our soldiers would never have climbed those cliffs at Normandy ... "Too dangerous!" "We'll take casualties!" "Maybe the Nazis will get nicer as their regime ages!"
"maybe the neocons will get nicer as their regime ages " !
Interesting, this pretty much confirms my assumptions. This also confirms that a high quality aggregator of open source + expert analysis like The Oil Drum is a pretty good resource indeed.
I've written a dozen letters to my Senators about this over the last six months and still the war preparations continue.
Our inevitable war with Iran will ride in on the back of a false flag operation in the continental United States. Yes, the Bush administration is low enough to kill some of our own and blame it on outsiders so we can attack the Iranians.
We fought fascism to its death in 1945 ... only to take up the mantle ourselves sixty years later.